libata suspend/resume

2005-07-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hi, An increasing number of laptop vendors seem to be including sata controllers now, and so we're looking at shipping the libata suspend/resume patch. The discussion about suspend in the scsi layer doesn't seem to have ended very conclusively, and I haven't been able to find any sign of that

Plextor 712 sa write issue

2005-07-28 Thread Polly
Greetings, I am able to read-only mount and read from my Plextor 712-SA DVD burner, but I cannot mount the drive read-write. I wonder if anyone here might have some suggestions about how I could solve this problem. Here is the error message I get when I try this to mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata

2005-07-28 Thread Doug Maxey
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:35:24 EDT, Jeff Garzik wrote: As soon as I finish SATA ATAPI (this week[end]), I'll take a look at this. A quick review of the patches didn't turn up anything terribly objectionable, though :) I would like to offer to test when you are ready. Some older and new SATAPI

copyright and linux patches

2005-07-28 Thread Timothy Thelin
For libata and submitted patches, how is copyright dealt with? Based on some googling, it sounds like each project decides on its own policy of whether ownership is transfered to the maintainer, stays with the submitter, or does something else. This isn't a question of licensing; it's just a

Re: copyright and linux patches

2005-07-28 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:03:41PM -0700, Timothy Thelin wrote: For libata and submitted patches, how is copyright dealt with? Based on some googling, it sounds like each project decides on its own policy of whether ownership is transfered to the maintainer, stays with the submitter, or

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Doug Maxey wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:35:24 EDT, Jeff Garzik wrote: As soon as I finish SATA ATAPI (this week[end]), I'll take a look at this. A quick review of the patches didn't turn up anything terribly objectionable, though :) I would like to offer to test when you are ready.

[RFC][PATCH] libata ATAPI alignment

2005-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
So, one thing that's terribly ugly about SATA ATAPI is that we need to pad DMA transfers to the next 32-bit boundary, if the length is not evenly divisible by 4. Messing with the scatterlist to accomplish this is terribly ugly no matter how you slice it. One way would be to create my own