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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	jb.faq@gmx.de,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:05:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EA583C.8070501@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E5F5D5.6050203@gmail.com>

Tejun Heo wrote:
..
> Modify EH such that it assumes no device is attached if both flavors
> of IDENTIFY are aborted by the device.  There really isn't much point
> in retrying when the device actively aborts the commands.
..

And thus dies support for the few very early IDE drives that lacked IDENTIFY.

R.I.P.  :)

(not that they would have worked with libata in the first place)

Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-26 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23  6:16 [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted Tejun Heo
2008-03-23 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-25  2:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-26 14:05 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-03-26 14:43   ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-26 14:48     ` Mark Lord
2008-03-26 15:44       ` Alan Cox

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