Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:41:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 Status |
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:32:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> > > > I had a VP2/97 which always hung the machine eventually, when PCI DMA > > was enabled. However with hdparm -X34 -d1, it was reliable. Is that > > handled in the chipset tuning? > > I should, because the revision tests should max speed that HOSY th > Multiword DMA mode > > In 2.4 kernels if you have the VIA_TUNING enabled, the setfeatures call of > settransferrate should invoke a command to the chipset to reprogram > it. > > Is there a good reason why we don't have the chipset tuning enabled all > the time? i.e., but another way, is there a downside to having it be > enabled all the time? > > It's nice if we can avoid situations where if users don't config their > kernels correctly with the right config options, their reward is a > trashed disk.... :-)
And this is any different than allow malformed data-phase services to block devices be the default because people at claiming igorance than to listen to facts? Sorry Ted, but this is worse than a missed drive timing.
Basically the old down side is that people bitch and moan and claim that I do not know everything and scream at a minor mistake while ignoring 1940's FATMAN in their face.
You want it defaulted to always then we do so in the defconfig.
Until people begin believing me again, the only think I can do is give them options.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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