From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Polling (was Re: [PATCHSET 2/2] implement PMP support, take 6) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:38:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4700EA52.10701@garzik.org> References: <1190521193410-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <46F9BF3E.5050708@garzik.org> <46FA1B4E.8090103@gmail.com> <46FD079F.3010007@garzik.org> <46FD0D50.8030602@gmail.com> <46FD1C4A.8010101@garzik.org> <46FD306C.3050205@gmail.com> <46FD5DE1.8000206@rtr.ca> <20070928220309.7c9ed816@the-village.bc.nu> <46FDADD9.9050007@garzik.org> <46FE45CE.1050007@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44561 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751744AbXJAMiq (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:38:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46FE45CE.1050007@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Alan Cox , Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Linux kernel development is supposed to happen incrementally nowadays. > Get a nice working solution in place, and then enhance/tune it. It's not about enhancing and tuning. It's about me (and/or James B) having to __undo__ the current code, just to get things working on an entire class of SATA-capable controllers out in the field. Jeff