Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 - missing IDE hunk from bk4; good or bad?

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-15T15:53:14Z

Bad.

On Sunday 15 of February 2004 16:22, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> Linus writes:
> >More merges, although most of them are architecture updates. IA64,
> >ppc32/64, SuperH and ARM.
>
> One non-arch difference between rc3 and bk4 seems to involve IDE DMA.

There are no IDE DMA related changes (except build fix) between rc3 and bk4.

> When I ran briefly ran bk4 I got a few IDE DMA errors (ThinkPad A30,
> TOSHIBA MK8025GAS). Makes one wonder. Thus:

Please send dmesg command output and your config kernel config
if you want anybody to look at IDE problems...

> Is the IDE patch in bk4 (that's missing from rc3) going to be in
> 2.6.3? Does it only come into play with SCSI, as it seems to, or
> does it affect a non-SCSI setup?

This was in SATA libata driver and was reverted because caused problems.
[ libata is independent of IDE drivers from linux/drivers/ide/ ]

If you don't use libata this chunk shouldn't affect you.

Cheers,
--bart