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SubjectRe: [PATCH-2.5.46] IDE BIOS timings
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On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 16:56, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Linus please drop this patch for now. Its not been tested on enough
> > controllers, its making things unneccessarily ugly and its also just
> > going to make updates hard.
>
> Alan, the patch is pretty much straight forward. Cleaning up the magic
> numbers and ->autotune consistencies is a good thing, imo.

You can clean up the naming but it still hasn't been tested, not all
bioses neccessarily give us timings we can trust either. I'm not
opposed to the concept but after the previous IDE mess in 2.5 merging
something that isnt tested on lots of controllers and might have weird
effects does both me a bit


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