From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 2/2] pata_amd: don't configure udma mode faster than BIOS did Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:26:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20070205132610.46f5f4fd@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070205080518.GI1625@htj.dyndns.org> <20070205080801.GJ1625@htj.dyndns.org> <20070205112533.611558c2@localhost.localdomain> <45C724E3.6000909@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:40881 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932378AbXBENNW (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:13:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45C724E3.6000909@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > 2. We don't have any way to detect cable type reliably on that > controller, so getting cable type correctly automatically on hotplug is > impossible anyway. Ask the drive. For the cases where controller logic is unreliable return CBL_UNK and let the drive deal with it. If the drive is wrong AND the controller is wrong then the error handling logic will resolve it. Alan