ITE 8212 and pwc drivers absent in Rawhide

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Right now, they're only in Alan Cox's -ac tree, for which there
> is no patch that applies to the 2.6.11rc tree that FC3 is tracking.

You can track 11rc, but the 2.6.11rc still has all the locking holes unfixed.
The IT8212 driver depends upon the newer IDE work so isn't independant of the
core IDE changes. I tried to resolve that but never managed to resolve it
with Bartlomiej. Similar problems with the changes to make ide-cd work although
that may be simpler to port over one day.

Given the mess the old PATA ide code is and the number of bugs that are
essentially unfixable (and that isn't Bartlomiej fault the code just needs a 
total rewrite but 2.6 has no non stable tree to fix it) my longer term plan is
to work with the folks moving all the IDE drivers to the newer SATA (and now
PATA aware) layer once the right bits are there and I have time. Its simply
easier that fixing the 2.6. base IDE code.

Alan