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DateWed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:19 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] libata: Correct IORDY handling
Alan Cox wrote:
> Debugging a report of a problem with an ancient solid state disk showed
> up some problems in the IORDY handling
> 
> 1.	We check the wrong bit to see if the device has IORDY
> 2.	Even then some ancient creaking piles of crap don't support
> 	SETXFER at all.
> 
> I think this should go via -mm for a bit. The cases it fixes are obscure
> and the risk of side effects is slight but possible. This also moves us
> slightly closer to supporting original MFM/RLL disks with libata but
> before Jeff panics I have no plans to do that....
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

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