From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert Lee Subject: Re: EH progress summary Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:11:57 +0800 Message-ID: <43F979CD.2060307@tw.ibm.com> References: <43F93A33.1020809@gmail.com> Reply-To: albertl@mail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:4767 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932247AbWBTIMF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:12:05 -0500 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e36.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1K8C5HP006224 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:12:05 -0500 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id k1K8Efx0062636 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:14:41 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k1K8C4dF023496 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:12:04 -0700 In-Reply-To: <43F93A33.1020809@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux-ide Hi Tejun: > > I think we're half-way through the EH changes. New reset mechanism and > most of config reorganization are in tree. Currently, the patches which > are waiting for your review are... > > [1] libata: rename ata_dev_id_[c_]string() > [2] libata: reorganize ata_dev_identify() (7 patches) > [3] libata: implement and use ata_dev_revalidate() (4 patches) > > Once these revalidation changes make into tree, I'll submit > ata_set_mode() changes (I've submitted the first patchset of this but > Alan had a valid objection. I agreed and dropped that one.[4]) > > After ata_set_mode() changes are complete, the real EH changes will be > submitted including error recording (to determine whether speed down is > necessary) and all the recovery actions. Will PATA speed down be supported? e.g. udma133 => udma100 => udma66 => udma33 => pio ... > I haven't splitted these yet > but I guess it will be three or four patchsets. > > And after that, Jens' NCQ work can be integrated over it. The code > required to implement NCQ is actually quite small. It will probably > take only one patchset of about three to five patches. > > So, this is where we stand. I hope we can get new EH up and working soon. > > Albert