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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: bzolnier@milosz.na.pl
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>,
	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: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:08:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093630121.837.39.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408272005.08407.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2004 19:53, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:45, Greg Stark wrote:
> > > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
> > > > I wonder if 83 probes are really necessary.  Maybe this could be
> > > > optimized a bit.
> > >
> > > Or if the kernel could be doing something useful during that time. I
> > > don't suppose it's possible to probe two different ide interfaces at the
> > > same time, is it?
> >
> > Did the patch to move this into a #define ever get merged?  Seems like a
> > no brainer, as it eliminates a magic number.
> 
> No and it won't because it is not a 'magic number' but rather a 'random 
> number' (see Alan's mail for explanation).
> 

OK, sorry.  Missed that one the first time.

> BTW Lee, 48-bit addressing doesn't mean that capacity > 137GB
> 

What determines whether 48 bit addressing will be used then?

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27 18:08 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 [this message]
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
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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