From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch for 2.6.29? 3/4] pata_legacy: for VLB 32bit PIO don't try tricks with slop
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:15:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49933FFC.9050500@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902112108.n1BL8go1005308@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>
> These devices are generally used with ATA anyway and it seems that some
> ATAPI will need us to issue the right number of words. Therefore as we
> can't switch mid burst on VLB devices we should only use 32bit I/O for
> suitable block sizes.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pinged Alan on 2/2, no response.
This was not signed-off-by by Alan, which is unlike him. Also, there
were no comments about testing.
So it seemed to me a test patch that I should hold onto, and waiting for
Alan's and others' comments first.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 21:08 [patch for 2.6.29? 3/4] pata_legacy: for VLB 32bit PIO don't try tricks with slop akpm
2009-02-11 21:15 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-02-25 20:31 ` Jeff Garzik
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