From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Polling (was Re: [PATCHSET 2/2] implement PMP support, take 6) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:56:33 -0400 Message-ID: <47024001.6090306@garzik.org> References: <1190521193410-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <46F9BF3E.5050708@garzik.org> <46FA1B4E.8090103@gmail.com> <46FD079F.3010007@garzik.org> <46FD0D50.8030602@gmail.com> <46FD1C4A.8010101@garzik.org> <46FD306C.3050205@gmail.com> <46FD5DE1.8000206@rtr.ca> <20070928220309.7c9ed816@the-village.bc.nu> <46FDADD9.9050007@garzik.org> <46FE45CE.1050007@rtr.ca> <4700EA52.10701@garzik.org> <47018CEC.6060203@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]:56028 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752545AbXJBM4i (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:56:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47018CEC.6060203@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Mark Lord , Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> Linux kernel development is supposed to happen incrementally nowadays. >>> Get a nice working solution in place, and then enhance/tune it. >> It's not about enhancing and tuning. >> >> It's about me (and/or James B) having to __undo__ the current code, just >> to get things working on an entire class of SATA-capable controllers out >> in the field. > > Hmmm... Simpy not setting ATA_FLAG_PMP isn't enough? The point was that I was going to turn on PMP support for SAS controllers in 2.6.24 to coincide with the merge, but now cannot without fixing things. Jeff