From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: hdio.txt update Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:23:27 +0100 Message-ID: <58cb370e050318072312531876@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050302235457.GA21352@htj.dyndns.org> <20050303021638.GA24150@htj.dyndns.org> <58cb370e05031008307a0163c1@mail.gmail.com> <20050311062908.GA11552@htj.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.202]:13078 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261633AbVCRPXa (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:23:30 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so122159wri for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:23:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20050311062908.GA11552@htj.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:29:08 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Greetings Bartlomiej, > > I've updated the following > > * in_flags modification when out_flags != 0 && in_flags == 0 > * more than one -> one or more than one > * tf_{in|out}_flags -> {in|out}_flags as tf_* are in-kernel names > > I'll update the taskfile patch series after receiving your comments > about the patches. Also, if you have a big picture for the IDE > driver, do you care to spill? What I have in mind now are > > 1. Completion-based taskfile (no direct ending/error handling of > requests), so that we can use it for specials/rw_disk/eh/etc... > 2. Make specials (set_geometry, set_multmode...) more regular. > 3. Do error-handling/resetting in a exception handler thread. > Maybe this and #2 should happen together. Yep, this is the way to go. > So, please let me know what you think. Updated patch for hdio.txt > follows. thanks, applied