From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Slagter Subject: Re: libata and PATA devices Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:05:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1123607133.28278.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200508071949.03782.inform@tiker.net> <42F6B8CD.4050100@gmail.com> <20050808030239.GA27502@havoc.gtf.org> <1123495856.22328.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42F8B41C.4040408@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-aPI81uX5V9im2tg/NC5D" Return-path: Received: from oldconomy.demon.nl ([212.238.217.56]:60877 "EHLO artemis.slagter.name") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964888AbVHIRGE (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:06:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42F8B41C.4040408@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org --=-aPI81uX5V9im2tg/NC5D Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 re= positories. Grmbl. --=-aPI81uX5V9im2tg/NC5D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBC+OJdJgD/6j32wUYRAqQDAJ9LrFqKgRnKVuZwgQiChQqufGzGQgCdGjkD Kv7ATLujIcxU8PV01T+uU5I= =RfoO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aPI81uX5V9im2tg/NC5D--