Re: libata in 2.4.24?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Samuel Flory wrote:
> 
> >    Are you considering including libata support for 2.4.24?  From my 
> > testing with a number of different embedded sata chipsets (mostly ICH, 
> > SI, and Promise) it appears very stable.  I'm not seeing any data 
> > corruption or lockups when running Cerberus with 2.4.23-rc5 + libata 
> > patch.  The only troubles I've had were with initialization of embedded 
> > promise sata controllers. (I still need to test with Jeff's latest fixes 
> > for this.)
> 
> I'm happy to include it in 2.4 when Jeff thinks its stable enough for a 
> stable series. ;)

I thought a bit more about this issue and I have a different opinion now.

2.6 is getting more and more stable and already includes libata --- users 
who need it should use 2.6.



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