From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [2.6.18,19] SATA boot problems (ICH6/ICH6W) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:47:14 -0500 Message-ID: <45C073B2.5000507@pobox.com> References: <200612111003.39928.kovid@theory.caltech.edu> <4588877D.1000400@gmail.com> <20061220032941.GA8903@us.ibm.com> <4588B3D5.4030406@gmail.com> <20061221171035.GC6171@us.ibm.com> <20070130015507.GA30069@us.ibm.com> <45BEF492.9000000@gmail.com> <20070130233735.GA7483@us.ibm.com> <45C0731B.2030608@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:55705 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932989AbXAaKrW (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:47:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45C0731B.2030608@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Gary Hade , Kovid Goyal , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lcm@us.ibm.com, konradr@us.ibm.com Tejun Heo wrote: > I'm gonna work on parallel probing for libata. I think we can easily > hide extra 2 secs of waiting with parallel probing. It will take some > time but that seems to be the 'right' thing to do especially considering > the fact that 150ms sleep has been enough for gazillions of ATA devices > during last decade except for this GoVault drive. FWIW I don't mind polling for a /maximum/ of $N seconds, but I want to stress that any patch that blatantly adds stuff like if (status == 0xff) mdelay(2000) will be rejected. Jeff