Re: [git patches] libata updates

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

>Chuck Ebbert wrote:
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>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>>Jeff Garzik (8):
>>>      libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk
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>>You can't just remove the "combined_mode=" kernel parameter or
>>every Linux user who uses that will get an unbootable kernel
>>with no good way of diagnosing the problem. It should still
>>be accepted and just print a warning.
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>No, most modern distros will simply Just Work(tm) due to mount by label, 
>udev, and similar gadgets.
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>As long as you have at least one (if not both) ATA drivers, you have a 
>kernel that will boot your hardware.  And by definition those using 
>combined_mode= do indeed have the necessary drivers.
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>	Jeff
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Please don't do this!

Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I 
am running FC6 with
kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance 
goes down to a
whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode=libata. 
It make my
system unusable!

Regards,
Steve

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