Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:48:09 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays |
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Mark Lord wrote: > I'm the dude responsible for the infamous "50 milliseconds" here. > > I agree that (1) it is overkill, (2) it could be optimised, > and (3) it is very very non-standard. > > But it also works extraordinarilly well. I still am very active > with ATA and SATA driver development, and the basic Linux IDE probe > works for me on vendor hardware where their own standards-specific > routines sometimes fail (even in their windows drivers). > > If possible, it would be best to let it be, and over time it will > be less and less important as SATA and kin take over the universe.
Honestly, this is what I would prefer: leave drivers/ide probing alone. As we say in the South, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Long term, migrate to libata which should provide quite rapid PATA probing.
> One possibility here would be to augment it with reset signature probing, > and/or a cyl-high read/write test. These could speed things up for > more mainstream cases. But I'm not going to touch what's there myself!
libata already does this :)
Jeff
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