From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sata_sil: implement Mod15Write workaround by split request processing Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:16:11 +0900 Message-ID: <454865DB.1060000@gmail.com> References: <11612370993859-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <4547FF96.4070808@pobox.com> <454803BB.6000006@gmail.com> <454806F1.8010703@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:31501 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946716AbWKAJQU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 04:16:20 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c2so734987nfe for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:16:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <454806F1.8010703@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sorry, I just think it adds too much complexity to sata_sil itself. If > the driver ever grows PIO-DMA support, it may make sense in that case, > since you would need the complexity (sil context) anyway. > > Seeing the patch, and comparing with the current driver, really weights > in favor of the current more-simple driver. There are a lot of > "early-rev hardware bug" things that we just don't bother with in Linux, > and I think this is one of them. Okay, I'll maintain it out-of-tree then. -- tejun