From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Asynchronous scan support for libata
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 11:19:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070908171917.GC6809@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E258F3.20805@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:10:27PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I think it's generally okay although it would need to spend quite some
> time in -mm and we'll need to exclude several drivers which require
> host-wide silence for mode programming (the current code is buggy but
> sequential probing hides it pretty well) till host-wide exclusion is
> implemented.
Can you tell me a bit more about these drivers? Would it be possible to
convert them to one host/many channels, which would give us the exclusion
we want?
--
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"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-08 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 21:05 [PATCH] Asynchronous scan support for libata Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-08 8:10 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-08 17:19 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-09-08 17:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-08 20:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-08 17:40 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-08 18:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-02 14:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-04 13:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
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