From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] hotplug polling, respin Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:35:25 +0900 Message-ID: <462F04BD.3040706@gmail.com> References: <20070425062538.GU7810@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <462EFE59.2090501@gmail.com> <20070425073037.GF7846@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:13430 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423278AbXDYHfe (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:35:34 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so115570pyi for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:35:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070425073037.GF7846@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Robin H. Johnson" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:08:09PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> The last submission of this >>> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13467) already had a tentative >>> ACK, pending a link power-saving patchset, that I can't find more >>> details on. >> Yeap, the implementation is ACKed but interface to userland is NACKed. >> We need sysfs nodes for ATA devices to do userland interface properly. >> I'm working hard to get there. > I'm not sure I follow you here. The only bit of 'userspace' interface I > see in this series is hotplug_polling_interval. What other userspace > bits are in question? What got NACKed is the lack of per-port interface. More specifically, stretching the usage of module parameter too far. >> Thanks a lot for taking care of these patches. A lot of people have >> been asking for patches for newer kernels and I couldn't find time to >> update them. > As always, it starts with scratching your own itch. My Fusion 500P works > like a charm with the SIL 3132 that I have - the previous scanning issue > where it took forever doing 15 scans (1;1,2;1,2,3;1,2,3,4;1,2,3,4,5) > instead of just 5 seems to have gone away, but the sluggish performance > remains (the sil24 seeming to not do SATA2 speed stuff, did you hear > back from SIL?). Nope. > As a gauge of interest in the PMP stuff, I'm presently getting about 3 > emails a week asking for work on it. > >> Jeff, can we make a page for PMP patches in linux-ata.org? It would be >> a much better place to direct people to. > I'd host a git tree, but I don't have sufficient stable bandwidth. We can host the git tree at kernel.org. I can get a tree setup there and pull from you. -- tejun