Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:45:54 -0500, Ross Biro <ross.biro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:40:45 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:25:50 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> wrote:
> > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > What do you need 'serialize' option for?
> >
> > No, I want them to fix the problem - whenever it is - ide or apic code. :)
> 
> And what do you want them to do when the problem is in hardware?

Workaround it if it is possible.  If this is really a unfixable hardware problem
(hard to believe - other OS-es would be also bitten by the issue) shouldn't it
be workaround differently anyway by something like "ide=serialize_all" (which
is much saner from IDE POV than "idex=serialize") ?

The reason I want to remove some of IDE options is that otherwise I have to
add ~ 200 lines of ugly code for storing them in the temporary buffer (part of
dynamic ide_hwifs[] patch) and it still is wrong...

IDE option -> IDE core -> IDE host driver

while it really should be

IDE option -> IDE host driver

Bartlomiej