From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: possibility to merge via_pata fixes to .19 stable series? Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:34:52 +0900 Message-ID: <455FECFC.9070302@gmail.com> References: <200611180759.34622.t.powa@gmx.de> <20061118002357.564dbb9d.akpm@osdl.org> <455F790C.2030509@garzik.org> <20061118224334.72e3685c@localhost.localdomain> <20061118190720.4498d14e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:38590 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756428AbWKSFfG (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:35:06 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1881742nfa for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:35:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20061118190720.4498d14e.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alan , Jeff Garzik , Tobias Powalowski , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , matthieu castet Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:43:34 +0000 > Alan wrote: > >> 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. > > A five month stall of a patch which makes the difference betweem "working" > and "not working" sounds pretty serious. > > Is this something someone is working on? If not, is it something which > Matthieu might have time to look into (please?) Doing SETXFER via polling is proposed as solution and verfivied by Matthieu. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13248/focus=13248 The patch has been updated and re-submitted a few days ago. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/14088/focus=14088 -- tejun