From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: possibility to merge via_pata fixes to .19 stable series? Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:43:34 +0000 Message-ID: <20061118224334.72e3685c@localhost.localdomain> References: <200611180759.34622.t.powa@gmx.de> <20061118002357.564dbb9d.akpm@osdl.org> <455F790C.2030509@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:43478 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755320AbWKRWjP (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:39:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <455F790C.2030509@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , Tobias Powalowski , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:12 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I don't know if they're still concerns, nor if they're fatal concerns > > either. But I've been sitting on that patch for nearly five months. > > This isn't driver-specific, so a similar change should be applied to the > core. Agreed - it belongs in the core code. We see the same problem on multiple controllers and its one of the big things that at the moment makes it impossible to progress the PATA drivers further.