Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:21:55 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.8.1-ck7, Two Badnessess, one dump. |
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On Mon, Sep 13 2004, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > >Is your drive idle while applying dma settings? Current 2.6 kernels > >aren't even close to being safe to modify drive settings, since it makes > >no effective attempts to serialize with ongoing commands. I have a > >half-assed patch to fix that. > > 1. Sorry about the HTML
Didn't see any?
> 2. How half-assed is the patch / what is it likely to break?
It's only half-assed in concept, because it doesn't cover some obscure corner cases which you aren't affected by. It wont break. See previous mail.
-- Jens Axboe
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