From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:14:52 +0100 Message-ID: <1155219292.22922.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1155213464.22922.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060810122056.GP11829@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:33762 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161277AbWHJNzE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:55:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060810122056.GP11829@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 14:20 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jens Axboe: > You make it sound much worse than it is. Apart for HPA, I'm not aware of > any setups that require extra treatment. And the amount of reported bugs > against it are pretty close to zero :-) There are several variants where you get - hangs on resume - HPA mishandling - CRC errors and usually eventually a hang HPA thankfully appears to bite only IBM thinkpad users