From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
tim.bird@am.sony.com, dsingleton@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:06:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091297179.1677.290.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407311434.59604.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 07:34, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Saturday 31 July 2004 03:12, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 18:35, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 20:11, Todd Poynor wrote:
> > > > IDE initialization and probing makes numerous calls to sleep for 50
> > > > milliseconds while waiting for the interface to return probe status and
> > > > such.
> > >
> > > Please make it taint the kernel if you do that so we can ignore all the
> > > bug reports. That or justify it with a cite from the ATA standards ?
> >
> > Works great on my hardware. Well worth the savings in boot time.
>
> Crowd of "my old crapbox no longer boots with newer kernel, wtf?" people
> won't be happy at all.
Maybe we need a CONFIG_ANCIENT_HARDWARE that people can set if they want
to use old stuff, and anywhere in the code we take a big hit to make
some ancient device work wouldn't get compiled. Devices could be added
to this class as they are identified.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-31 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 19:11 [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays Todd Poynor
2004-07-30 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-30 22:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-31 0:12 ` Lee Revell
[not found] ` <200407311434.59604.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-07-31 18:00 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 17:45 ` Greg Stark
2004-08-27 17:53 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 18:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-27 18:08 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 18:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-01 13:20 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 14:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-01 15:30 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 15:36 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 19:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 18:42 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 19:08 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-02 16:04 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 15:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-31 18:06 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-07-31 19:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-31 21:35 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-31 21:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 22:12 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-04 17:30 ` Anthony de Boer
2004-08-05 21:39 ` Tim Bird
2004-07-31 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-03 17:47 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-06 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-06 19:29 ` Tim Bird
2004-08-06 20:46 ` Todd Poynor
2004-08-02 21:56 ` Tim Bird
2004-08-02 21:01 ` Alan Cox
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