VIA SATA patch request

[Jay Cliburn]

Jay Cliburn wrote:
> Kernel 2.6.17.12 (latest stable) was released today with support 
> (almost) for the PATA side of the VIA 8237A Southbridge.  Unfortunately, 
> the patch for the SATA side -- currently in -mm since the end of July -- 
> didn't make it.  It probably won't enter the mainstream until 2.6.19, 
> when the change to the new libata hierarchy is scheduled to occur.
> 
> May I please ask that it be added to FC devel until it's released 
> upstream? It's exceedingly simple and it works: I've been manually 
> patching Fedora kernels for over a month now to boot from a SATA drive 
> attached to an Asus M2V mainboard.
> 
> If you guys don't do this sort of thing on request, just say so.

Allow me to extend a personal thank you to Alan Cox, who pushed this patch into 
2.6.18-rc7.  Many owners of new VIA-based mainboards will be delighted to be 
able to boot FC6 without driver disks and kernel patching gyrations.

Thanks again,
Jay