From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add support for READ/WRITE LONG Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:40:36 +0100 Message-ID: <200703162240.36687.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <3aac340703102322p362998b9labedc13503702d2b@mail.gmail.com> <200703162209.13411.bzolnier@gmail.com> <45FB0A4E.40904@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:11261 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752189AbXCPVdU (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:33:20 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so809270uga for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:33:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45FB0A4E.40904@rtr.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , Sergei Shtylyov , Vitaliyi , Tejun Heo , IDE/ATA development list , Mikael Pettersson On Friday 16 March 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Friday 16 March 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > .. > >> I've tested ATA1 and newer PATA drives, and various SATA drives > >> with these commands without bothering to drop to PIO0, > >> and none of them had issues. > > > > This is what really matters wrt libata READ/WRITE LONG support. > > > > These commands are not supposed to be used by normal users anyway > > so patch while not being "perfect" is "good enough" to be merged IMO. > > Heh.. I have a similar patch for IDE as well, Please send it out, I will happily apply it. > but not up-to-date for the latest kernels. The most changes recently have been in host drivers so probably the patch should apply/work fine (or require minimal fixups)... Thanks, Bart