KernelTrap: SATA Support In The 2.4 Stable Kernel

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"Following the recent release of the 2.4.26 kernel, Marcelo Tosatti announced that there was only one new feature left to be merged into the stable 2.4 kernel series: Serial ATA. Having received a libata patch from Jeff Garzik, Marcelo announced his intentions to merge in SATA support for the 2.4.27 kernel:

"'A lot of new boxes are shipping with SATA-only disks, and its pretty bad to have a 'stable' series without such industry-standard support.

'This is the last feature to be merged on 2.4.x, and only because its quite necessary. Any oppositions...?'"

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