From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-core More robust parsing for multi_count(v5) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:17:55 +0900 Message-ID: <49C44E53.4020409@kernel.org> References: <49C1047D.4000008@rtr.ca> <49C11A0C.3070502@rtr.ca> <49C11ED4.2030307@rtr.ca> <49C19087.5000307@gmail.com> <49C190F1.7010202@kernel.org> <49C28133.8050401@rtr.ca> <49C281A5.5080404@rtr.ca> <49C2D642.90706@kernel.org> <49C39690.6090802@rtr.ca> <49C396CF.7030202@rtr.ca> <20090320140714.2e7770d0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <49C3B7E9.2000505@rtr.ca> <49C4235D.5070303@kernel.org> <49C43ABA.4010601@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41254 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752210AbZCUCRr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:17:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49C43ABA.4010601@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , Alan Cox , IDE/ATA development list Jeff Garzik wrote: > Yeah, that has long been a design decision -- avoid all the mechanics of > PIO-Multi, simply because we did not have much of a need for it (and > still don't). > > Albert Lee worked on PIO-Multi a while ago, which was mainly to get > ATA_{12,16} working, IIRC. > > But overall, I don't see much of a need to introduce it into the main > stack? Well, there still are awful lot of PIO only devices out in the wild, so improving PIO support seems like a good idea? -- tejun