Re: libata and PATA devices

[Erik Slagter <erik@slagter.name>]

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On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:48 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:

> The libata code is taking forever to catch up to modern reality,
> mostly because so much of it lives eternally in Jeff's private
> git repository, where only a few people ever exercise the code.

I'd suggest sending some of it to Andy Morton, so it becomes a -mm patch
and it can be applied by non-git-people. Also imho it will get much
wider testing.

> As is, it's pretty good, except for the broken libata error handling
> that (by default) locks up machines every hour or two.

Exactly, that's why I don't use it for the moment.

And that's why I had to patch the standard ide support's PCI ID list
(and got some angry intel engineer barking on me).

> But there's also a fix for that, again floating around only in private repositories.

Grmbl.


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