From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Correct IORDY handling
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C2A69F.6020004@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070731140148.4cb780de@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
> Debugging a report of a problem with an ancient solid state disk showed
> up some problems in the IORDY handling
>
> 1. We check the wrong bit to see if the device has IORDY
> 2. Even then some ancient creaking piles of crap don't support
> SETXFER at all.
>
> I think this should go via -mm for a bit. The cases it fixes are obscure
> and the risk of side effects is slight but possible. This also moves us
> slightly closer to supporting original MFM/RLL disks with libata but
> before Jeff panics I have no plans to do that....
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 13:01 [PATCH] libata: Correct IORDY handling Alan Cox
2007-07-31 14:18 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-15 7:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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