From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Add a drivers/ide style DMA disable Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:01:00 +0900 Message-ID: <46E23A9C.2090003@gmail.com> References: <20070822233710.415faaf0@the-village.bc.nu> <46E0CC76.70101@gmail.com> <46E1D4FB.8030409@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:39567 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753541AbXIHRGp (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:06:45 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so939981wah for ; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:06:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46E1D4FB.8030409@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alan Cox , akpm@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > FWIW -- as I noted to Alan personally at KS, I would rather drop the > "pata_" and have it apply to all, PATA or SATA. Having the distinction between sata and pata is also nice tho considering many modern machines mix the two and use the P part for ATAPI, CF kind of stuff. It's all just masks anyway, we can easily do both. > As an aside, it would be nice to get the EH in shape where it can pause > all ports, so we can finally allow userspace to submit SET FEATURES - > XFER MODE and have it handled cleanly and properly. Aye aye sir, bumping up in the to-do list. BTW, I'm currently on airplane and won't be back home in about ten days. PMP patchset is regenerated but it has some problem integrating with the AN support and I need my gears to iron it out, so PMP patches will have to wait a bit more. FWIW, openSUSE 10.3 defaults to libata drivers and contains the PMP patches. It already received quite a bit of testing going through two betas, so I don't think the PMP patches would introduce too many serious regressions for non-PMP users. Thanks. -- tejun