Re: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9)

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 13 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <randy_d_dunlap@linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > Add ata_acpi in Makefile and Kconfig.
> > > Add ACPI obj_handle.
> > > Add ata_acpi.c to libata kernel-doc template file.
> >
> > Randy,
> >
> > Any chance you can add PATA support as well for this? Many of the
> > notebooks out there with SATA controllers really have PATA devices
> > behind a bridge, I think it's pretty much a pre-requisite for this to be
> > considered complete that this is supported as well. The code should be
> > the same, it just needs to lookup the right taskfiles. Right now on this
> > T43, it finds nothing.
> 
> I'll add that to my list but I don't yet think that it's quite
> as simple as you make it sound...

It might not be, I'm totally acpi clueless :-)

But the code factoring should look something like this:

- Lookup taskfiles needed for resume (and suspend might need some,
  too?). This step requires looking for sata and pata taskfiles listed,
  so you'd need code for both.

- Submit and check status of said taskfiles. This step is independent of
  the drive type.

So step 1 is the one that needs extending, how much work that is I
dunno since I have no clue on the actual lookup or the acpi data.

-- 
Jens Axboe