[BUG] FC5/FC6 does not support ATI SB600 SATA

[Conke Hu]

On 12/21/06, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Conke Hu <conke.hu <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Now the root cause is found and patch created. My question is, is it
> > still possible to merge the patch to FC5/FC6 kernel (since the final
> > release comes out)?
>
> Yes. This is not Debian stable. ;-)
>
> However (in case you or whoever wrote the patch didn't do that yet), you are
> supposed to send the patch upstream first, and once it gets accepted upstream,
> you can file a bug requesting a backport. In the particular case of the kernel,
> however, the easiest way to get your patch in is probably to ask for inclusion
> in the upstream stable branches (currently 2.6.18.x and 2.6.19.x), so it will
> get into Fedora as soon as Dave Jones pulls a new upstream release from that
> branch (and he does regularly - Fedora even gets updates like 2.6.18->2.6.19,
> however in this case 2.6.19 is apparently pretty disruptive, so it's still on
> 2.6.18.x for now).
>
>         Kevin Kofler

Thank you so much, Kevin! :)
I will file an EPR on this issue tomorrow morring. BTW, the patch that
I've upstreamed now is accepted by kernel org and can be git from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6.git
Patch subject:
     PCI: ATI sb600 sata quirk