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