Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 21 June 2009 23:19:50 David Miller wrote:
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:56 +0200
> 
> > On Sunday 21 June 2009 02:19:45 David Miller wrote:
> >> I wonder how much testing this commit received...
> > 
> > Too less, any help with improving testing coverage is welcomed
> > (this was just a tiny part of very large rework which has been tested
> > and has been sitting in linux-next for weeks before push to Linus).
> 
> Maybe you should leave the driver alone until you can get affirmative
> testing results from people who have the hardware?!?!? :-/
> 
> And in leiu of that, simply leave it alone until such testing can
> actually be performed.

Can't wait forever...

> That's why all the IDE drivers are constantly breaking on sparc.

URLs to bug-reports please.. or it didn't happened..

> The IDE layer is more than legacy at this point, so if you aren't
> fixing bugs (those reported by users and the fix for which can
> be absolutely tested), just leave it be.

Interesting, we have been steadily adding new hardware support
(there is another driver for embedded hardware pending inclusion)..

If you wanted to run IDE-stale tree I would have been more than happy
to help you with it by cc:ing you on bugfix patches.

> So this totally eliminates any argument you may have about necessary
> "infrastructure" changes that might be blocked by not being able to
> make these kinds modifications to drivers for devices you can't even
> test.

I'm really tired of this kind of hostility towards IDE changes and I also
don't have time for such unproductive discussions.  Lets get over this
quickly, since you seem to have such a great insight into running IDE layer
here is a little proposition..

ACK?  [ If not than can we please get back with the program? ]

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-P:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
-M:	bzolnier@gmail.com
+P:	David S. Miller
+M:	davem@davemloft.net
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-T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git
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