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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: possibility to merge via_pata fixes to .19 stable series?
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:02:06 -0800
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Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de>, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:34:52 +0900
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:43:34 +0000
> > Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:12 -0500
> >> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >>>> I don't know if they're still concerns, nor if they're fatal concerns
> >>>> either.  But I've been sitting on that patch for nearly five months.
> >>> This isn't driver-specific, so a similar change should be applied to the 
> >>> core.
> >> Agreed - it belongs in the core code. We see the same problem on multiple
> >> controllers and its one of the big things that at the moment makes it
> >> impossible to progress the PATA drivers further.
> > 
> > A five month stall of a patch which makes the difference betweem "working"
> > and "not working" sounds pretty serious.
> > 
> > Is this something someone is working on?  If not, is it something which
> > Matthieu might have time to look into (please?)
> 
> Doing SETXFER via polling is proposed as solution and verfivied by Matthieu.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13248/focus=13248

Great, thanks.

> The patch has been updated and re-submitted a few days ago.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/14088/focus=14088
> 

OIC.  I'm not on linux-ide.