From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord 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 Message-ID: <47EA583C.8070501@rtr.ca> References: <47E5F5D5.6050203@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4476 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815AbYCZOFu (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:05:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47E5F5D5.6050203@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Jeff Garzik , jb.faq@gmx.de, IDE/ATA development list , Alan Cox 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