Re: Via VT8237A kernel support

[Jay Cliburn <jacliburn bellsouth net>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:44:21PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> > I've not heard a peep as a result of my patch submittal.  Is there 
> > another kernel mailing list I should be watching on which I'd have seen 
> > the patch applied?  (I watch -ide, -scsi, and netdev.)
>
> I'd guess it got ignored as it was already in the upstream trees.
>
> Thanks for noticing the PATA ident was missing I've poked Andrew and Linus
> and it should be resolved for .18.

Alan,

Maybe I should've just kept my mouth shut about the whole thing, because 
it now looks like there are *two* 1106:0591 lines in the 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 
version of drivers/ata/sata_via.c.  It doesn't seem to cause any harm, 
though, since I'm running rc4-mm3 on the system right now.

This patch removes one of the dupes.

[jcliburn osprey kernel-2.6.18-rc4-mm3]$ diff -u
linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3/drivers/ata/sata_via.c
linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3-work/drivers/ata/sata_via.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3/drivers/ata/sata_via.c 2006-08-31
16:21:40.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3-work/drivers/ata/sata_via.c    2006-08-31
18:13:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@
        { 0x1106, 0x0591, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6420 },
        { 0x1106, 0x3149, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6420 },
        { 0x1106, 0x3249, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6421 },
-       { 0x1106, 0x0591, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6420 },
        { }     /* terminate list */
 };

To whom should I submit the patch that fixes this, or, more generally,
who is the correct recipient for patches in the new drivers/ata tree?

Thanks,
Jay