From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
jb.faq@gmx.de,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:05:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EA583C.8070501@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E5F5D5.6050203@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
..
> Modify EH such that it assumes no device is attached if both flavors
> of IDENTIFY are aborted by the device. There really isn't much point
> in retrying when the device actively aborts the commands.
..
And thus dies support for the few very early IDE drives that lacked IDENTIFY.
R.I.P. :)
(not that they would have worked with libata in the first place)
Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 6:16 [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted Tejun Heo
2008-03-23 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-25 2:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-26 14:05 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-03-26 14:43 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-26 14:48 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-26 15:44 ` Alan Cox
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