Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:20:40 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: libata git tree, mbox queue status and contents |
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> * Alan: IORDY handling -- upstream whenever Alan is happy
I'm happy with it from testing. Just a little worried about it going upstream mid -rc as it could have a weird side effect somewhere. I've verified an original pre ATA IDE drive with it too now 8)
> * Alan: ACPI checks for 80wire cable -- upstream whenever Alan is happy
Happy
> * Albert: irq_on/off. Really need to give this some thought. Not sure > I like where this model is going. Polling and twiddling irq on/off > should be kept to a minimum, because it's sorta an admission that the > host state machine has broken down, and we need to bandaid. Its a > bandaid not a root-cause solution.
I think of it more as an admission that the IDE design is lacking in a few areas. No suprise as its an emulation of a 15 year old interface that was normally used polled.
> * Ben Collins: cleanup HPA support. Need to review and see what's > needed today, from this patch.
We need to track the HPA case Bartlomiej is working on with old IDE - one drive out there is reporting its geometry wrong. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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