From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
Karl Auerbach <karl@iwl.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, karl@cavebear.com,
"Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@mkp.net>
Subject: Re: Some IDE issues with 2.6.28 on PC-Engines ALIX2
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:15:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901051815.24847.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105165238.616e5186@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Monday 05 January 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> > * CS5536 is used mostly for driving CF cards and this allows use of
> > IDE features which are unavailable under libata (32-bit I/O support,
> > non-rotational media optimizations, etc).
>
> Non rotational media handling is done by the block layer and so works for
> everything. Just set the right queue according to the device policy you
> want in hal/udev.
You seem to confuse no merges policy with non rotational media support.
Both are done by block layer. The former is controlled by the user-space
while the latter is controlled by the block driver.
Thanks,
Bart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-05 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 0:37 Some IDE issues with 2.6.28 on PC-Engines ALIX2 Karl Auerbach
2009-01-05 3:01 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 12:44 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-05 13:33 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 17:47 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-05 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 18:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 11:36 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 23:23 ` Karl Auerbach
2009-01-05 23:27 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-06 12:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-06 19:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-06 19:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-05 12:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-05 16:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-05 16:52 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 17:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-01-05 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 17:38 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-05 18:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 18:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-05 22:41 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-11 17:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-01-31 21:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-01 16:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-31 11:25 Christoph .J Thompson
2009-01-31 12:53 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-31 14:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-31 14:58 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-31 14:42 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-31 16:27 ` Christoph .J Thompson
2009-01-31 16:35 ` Mark Lord
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