Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Sat Feb 28, 2004 at 02:20:22AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Dunno if I qualify as sufficiently 'really smart' enough but the
> > last time I put in the considerable effort needed to re-sync the
> > 2.4 and 2.6 IDE layers, and merge in the useful -ac bits that
> > never made it into mainstream, nothing whatsoever came of my
> > efforts...
> 
> Did you actually split and send out your patches? :)

Yes....
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0175.html

> > My 2.4.x patches are in daily use by a large group of people
> > and they work fine, for what it is worth.  My IDE merging
> > patches are the following:
> >
> >     http://codepoet.org/kernel/
> >
> >     020_ide_layer_2.4.22-ac4.bz2
> 
> Needs splitting and most of this stuff needs new re-sync with 2.6. :-(

Yup.  After splitting and submitting to no effect it was
less effort to maintain the lot as one big patch...

> >     021_ide_geom_hpa_capacity64.bz2
> 
> Now I remember why this wasn't applied.
> It breaks braindamaged HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl
> (because changes way drive->cyls is calculated).
> We workaround-ed it in 2.6 by removing this ioctl. :)
> I think we really should do the same for 2.4.

I did just that but it was rejected by Alan Cox...
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0193.html

 -Erik

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