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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:57:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812161957.52419.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081214070620.GB31552@1wt.eu>

On Sunday 14 December 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:39:32AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices
> > 
> > Fix do_ide_request() to operate on previous device / port instead of
> > the current one.  The original code was wrong since at least Feb 2002
> > (2.4.0 timeframe).
> 
> What could be the impact of this bug ? Should I backport your fix to 2.4 ?

The fix results in better handling of unexpected IRQs on serialized IDE
ports.  However since unexpected IRQs coming from a device is not something
we should normally see and I don't recall seeing any bugreports that would
be potentially closed by this fix I don't think that there is an urgent need
to backport it (thanks for caring about 2.4.x users anyway!).

Thanks,
Bart

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-16 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-13 23:39 [PATCH 0/6] ide: final bits of struct hwgroup_s -> struct ide_host change Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-13 23:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] ide: fix setting nIEN on idle devices Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-14  7:06   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-12-16 18:57     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2008-12-16 20:24       ` Willy Tarreau
2008-12-13 23:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] ide: add ->cur_port to struct ide_host and use it for serialized hosts Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-13 23:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] ide: use per-port IRQ handlers Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-13 23:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] ide: remove hwgroup->hwif and {drive,hwif}->next Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-13 23:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] ide: use lock bitops for ports serialization Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-13 23:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] ide: merge ide_hwgroup_t with ide_hwif_t Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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