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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:33:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104157999.20952.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04122616577e1bd33@mail.gmail.com>

On Llu, 2004-12-27 at 00:57, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Most of these options are pure braindamage (they were obsoleted to
> verify what is what) and they paper over real bugs in core or host drivers.
> 
> What do you need 'serialize' option for?

A whole range of quirky systems, probably in most cases buggy hardware,
BIOS firmware setup bugs and the like but they are there and end users
use them. Its __init code so it is free.

As to real bugs there is probably a good three to six months fixing
needed for the DMA timeout paths having been debugging them, along with
timer/irq races all over the place. I'd rather worry about the fact the
IDE eh code is totally hosed first and realistically needs an ide_eh
thread for error handling akin to the SCSI approach.

> 
> > o       Fix bogus dma_ naming in the 2.6.10 patch       (Alan Cox)
> 
> It is on purpose, we really don't need 'ide_' prefix in ide_hwif_t.
> The rest of ide_dma_* functions will lose ide_* prefix over time.

The current code uses

dma_ for DMA variables
ide_dma_ for functions

Its nice clean and logical. I'll consider moving my IDE code over to
your naming when the naming is consistent again (with or without the
ide_).

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-27 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-26 23:31 Linux 2.6.10-ac1 Alan Cox
2004-12-27  0:57 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-12-27  1:25   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-27  1:40     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-12-27 14:28       ` Alan Cox
2004-12-27 15:46         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-12-27 14:45       ` Ross Biro
2004-12-27 15:38         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-12-27 15:49           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-27 15:54             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-12-27 16:02               ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-27 16:54               ` Alan Cox
2004-12-27 14:36     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-12-27 14:57       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-27 14:33   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-12-27 20:31     ` Rogério Brito
2004-12-27 20:43       ` Michal Schmidt
2004-12-28  0:45         ` Alan Cox
2004-12-28  2:44           ` Rogério Brito
2004-12-30  4:41 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-30  5:05 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-30 23:38   ` Alan Cox
2004-12-31  1:06     ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-31  9:57       ` Jan Dittmer
2004-12-31 12:05         ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-31 12:38           ` Jan Dittmer
2004-12-31 13:18             ` Gene Heskett

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