Re: Status of NCQ in libata

[Tejun Heo]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26 2006, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to know about the current status of NCQ support in libata,
> > whether anyone is actively working on it, where I should find a 
> > development branch (there's no ncq branch anymore in libata-dev.git
> > it seems) and when an upstream merge should be expected.
>
> You can give it a spin in the 'ncq' branch in the block layer git repo:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git
>
> Only one real bit needs to get merged in libata for ncq to be submitted,
> and that is Tejun's eh rework. Once that is in, ncq becomes a fairly
> small patch and can probably go straight in.
>
> AHCI is still the only supported controller, once NCQ is merged I'm sure
> a few others will follow.

Patches going out later today. :) I've just ported the NCQ stuff over it 
and about to test it. As I have the doc and hardware NCQ support for 
sata_sil24 will soon follow.

--
tejun
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