Via VT8237A kernel support
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Wed Aug 30 14:40:34 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:26 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> For reasons I cannot fathom -- and because the cognizant gatekeepers at
> LKML won't respond to pleas for feedback -- these two simple patches,
> which add PATA and SATA support for the VIA VT8237A Southbridge chip now
> found on certain new motherboards, have not been applied (or acked or
> nacked or anything else).
>
> PATA: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115513979609546&w=2
>
> SATA: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115552504713314&w=2
>
> I know for a fact the the SATA patch works; I wrote it and I've been
> using it for weeks. I've read the PATA patch works, too, but I haven't
> personally tried it (although I'd be willing to try if it helps).
>
> I don't want to waste anyone's time by filing a Fedora bugzilla that
> will never be implemented, so if I do, what are the prospects for
> getting these patches into the Fedora development tree until such time
> as they're applied upstream (if ever)?
>
> Maybe my expectations are too high. For the kerneldev-savvy readers,
> what is the typical gestation period for upstream patches of this type?
maybe you should post them on the lkml mailing list instead; that is
much more active than the linux-ide list. Maybe CC linux-scsi as well
since the sata stuff lives in drivers/scsi ...
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