Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:31:53 -0500 (CDT) | From | Shawn Leas <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.111: IDE DMA disabled...BLAH...BLAH... |
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Hubert Mantel wrote:
> We had this same discussion here at S.u.S.E. some time ago (only talking > 2.0!), but we decided that the number of problem machines is too low to > change the default. If with 2.1 the number of machines that show this > problem is about 1% we _need_ to change the default. 1% means _many_ > machines!
This isn't a question of disabling [U]DMA, it's a problem of identifying broken hardware, and THEN, and ONLY then can we track bugs meaningfully. Blacklisting is sufficient in the end!
> > Alan > > Very close to being the ex Linux Sound/video/network/etc person > > You should make hot line support on Red Hat for two or three days. This > could convince you that sane defaults are a very good thing ;-)
I work in a helpdesk, and you are all too correct. I assume I don't need to talk about the average intelligence of callers to helpdesk...
> I hope Linus does what he thinks is right.
He will, and forgetting about DMA was only an attention getter... It worked, didn't it?
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