Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:14:37 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/20] pata_efar: always program master_data before slave_data |
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> on the other side of equation we have 5 drivers less, 1400 LOCs less, > no risk of losing bugfixes and features (which is true already w/ > pata_rdc lacking locking fixes + Power Management and pata_oldpiix > lacking parallel scanning feature).
The parallel scanning feature is somewhat irrelevant on an original PIIX, if the hardware even supports it which is somewhat of an unknown. If you have a minor boot time performance concern you'd buy a real computer instead.
And the other stuff you actually create a problem rather than solving one - the difficulting testing the rare chips makes it harder to fix ata_piix bugs and do full testing.
Alan
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