From patchwork Wed Oct 14 12:52:11 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jeff Garzik X-Patchwork-Id: 35962 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24883B7B69 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:54:28 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760134AbZJNMxB (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:53:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760128AbZJNMxB (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:53:01 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47978 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755290AbZJNMxA (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:53:00 -0400 Received: from cpe-069-134-158-197.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.158.197] helo=bd.yyz.us) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1My3Kv-00044E-2o; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:52:14 +0000 Message-ID: <4AD5C97B.4080509@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:52:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-2.7.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, "Alexandros C. Couloumbis" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_sc1200: Fix crash on boot References: <20091006150737.9610.81541.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091013185637.870369c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20091014130046.0aa13166@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200910141412.29467.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910141412.29467.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 10/14/2009 08:12 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 14:00:46 Alan Cox wrote: >>> This patch applies to 2.6.31 and 2.6.30 (at least). How far back >>> should it be ported? >> >> No idea. I was just getting it fixed for the maintainer while waiting for >> something else to build. > > BTW do you happen to know who is the current maintainer of this driver > (ditto for other PATA drivers)? > > MAINTAINERS lists only: > > SERIAL ATA (SATA) SUBSYSTEM > P: Jeff Garzik > M: jgarzik@pobox.com > L: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git > S: Supported > F: drivers/ata/ > F: include/linux/ata.h > F: include/linux/libata.h > > but this driver surely ain't SATA. FWIW, I've been treating Alan as "PATA sub-maintainer", and tend to wait for an Alan review of a PATA driver patch before applying it [unless it's blindingly obvious or Bart chimes etc.]. But yes, overall, libata is certainly not SATA-only anymore, and MAINTAINERS should reflect that. Maybe a patch like the attached? (DaveM CC'd, since I modified the old-IDE entry as well) Jeff diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 69e31aa..1a756bd 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -2581,7 +2581,7 @@ W: http://www.developer.ibm.com/welcome/netfinity/serveraid.html S: Supported F: drivers/scsi/ips.* -IDE SUBSYSTEM +Old IDE SUBSYSTEM M: "David S. Miller" L: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6.git @@ -4644,7 +4644,7 @@ S: Maintained F: drivers/misc/phantom.c F: include/linux/phantom.h -SERIAL ATA (SATA) SUBSYSTEM +ATA SUBSYSTEM M: Jeff Garzik L: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git