From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [2.6.18,19] SATA boot problems (ICH6/ICH6W) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:00:44 +0900 Message-ID: <45C076DC.4080204@gmail.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> <45C073B2.5000507@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.224]:64009 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933011AbXAaLAu (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:00:50 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so156616nze for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:00:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45C073B2.5000507@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Gary Hade , Kovid Goyal , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lcm@us.ibm.com, konradr@us.ibm.com Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. Aye aye captain. I wouldn't do that myself either. -- tejun