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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

  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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