Re: Flash Back -- kernel 2.1.111

Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-24T10:24:20Z

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:42:37PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> > What really bugs me about this is that while normally you're hard to
> > communicate with, this time you have actively _lied_ about the patches on
> > IRC and in email about how they will cause IDE corruption etc due to
> > timing changes.
>
> Before I truley reply to this statement above, would you like to recant it?
>
> > No such timing changes existed, and whenever you were asked about what was
> > actually actively _wrong_ with the patches, you didn't reply.
>
> Here I question the taking of a patch 12 which altered the behavior of the
> subsystem baseclock to setting up PIO timings for the executing command
> block operations. I then looked over the patch again and saw you had not
> taken it yet.
>
> In that private email, I clearly stated I made a mistake in reading what
> was accepted into 2.5.5. The fact is you had not accepted it yet.
> However I expect you will take it. Given that very few people in the
> world have most of the hardware that was effected by that change, and even
> less have the NDA documents on the rules, please accept the change.

Maybe then you'll want to point out how patch #12 can change any PIO
timings? I'm definitely curious ... that'd affect my VIA driver as well,
you know ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs