From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Asynchronous scan support for libata Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 11:19:17 -0600 Message-ID: <20070908171917.GC6809@parisc-linux.org> References: <20070906210505.GF27404@parisc-linux.org> <46E258F3.20805@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:41398 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753903AbXIHRTS (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:19:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E258F3.20805@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 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? -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "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 a retrograde step."