From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263238AbUB1B0e (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:26:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263240AbUB1B0e (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:26:34 -0500 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:58016 "EHLO codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263238AbUB1B0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:26:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:26:31 -0700 From: Erik Andersen To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , John Bradford , Erik van Engelen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2 Message-ID: <20040228012630.GA3074@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: andersen@codepoet.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , John Bradford , Erik van Engelen , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <403F2178.70806@vanE.nl> <200402272114.23108.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040227224431.GB984@codepoet.org> <200402280220.22324.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402280220.22324.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat Feb 28, 2004 at 02:20:22AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Dunno if I qualify as sufficiently 'really smart' enough but the > > last time I put in the considerable effort needed to re-sync the > > 2.4 and 2.6 IDE layers, and merge in the useful -ac bits that > > never made it into mainstream, nothing whatsoever came of my > > efforts... > > Did you actually split and send out your patches? :) Yes.... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0175.html > > My 2.4.x patches are in daily use by a large group of people > > and they work fine, for what it is worth. My IDE merging > > patches are the following: > > > > http://codepoet.org/kernel/ > > > > 020_ide_layer_2.4.22-ac4.bz2 > > Needs splitting and most of this stuff needs new re-sync with 2.6. :-( Yup. After splitting and submitting to no effect it was less effort to maintain the lot as one big patch... > > 021_ide_geom_hpa_capacity64.bz2 > > Now I remember why this wasn't applied. > It breaks braindamaged HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl > (because changes way drive->cyls is calculated). > We workaround-ed it in 2.6 by removing this ioctl. :) > I think we really should do the same for 2.4. I did just that but it was rejected by Alan Cox... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0193.html -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--