Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

Andre Hedrick
2005-08-22T23:54:27Z

WHOA Gents!

Let me get some popcorn to watch this p-contest.
The way you guys are sniping at each other sounds like the good-old days,
when everyone railed me and the subsystem and ended up railing back

Guess nothing was learned from the 6+ years of flamage.

I have mellowed out with age ...

Bart, give Alan a break ... his is genrally right at the end of the day.

Alan, give Bart a break ... cause there is no way I am coming back for a
three-pete.

Cheers,

Andre

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> Any news about URLs? It shouldn't be too hard find them unless they
> never existed in the first place. I will work on the issues immediately.
>
> Bartlomiej
>
> On 8/14/05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:56 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > * your stuff was accepted after all (and some stuff like ide-cd
> > > > fixes was never splitted from the -ac patchset and submitted)
> > >
> > > They were.
> >
> > I remember discussion about end-of-media ide-cd fixes but the patch
> > was never submitted. If you have *URL* to the patch I'll work on the patch.
> >
> > > > * you've never provided any technical details on "the stuff I broke"
> > >
> > > I did, several times. I had some detailed locking discussions with
> > > Manfred and others on it as a result. The locking in the base IDE is
> > > still broken, in fact its become worse - the random locking around
> > > timing changes now causes some PIIX users to see double spinlock debug
> > > with the base kernel as an example.
> >
> > Huh? *WHICH* my patch causes this?
> >
> > I don't remember this discussion et all, care to give some pointers?
> >
> > > > > Would make sense, but I thought I had the right bits masked. Will take a
> > > >
> > > > WIN_RESTORE is send unconditionally (as it always was),
> > > >
> > > > This is not the right thing, somebody should go over all ATA/ATAPI
> > > > drafts and come with the correct strategy of handling WIN_RESTORE.
> > >
> > > Ok that would make sense. Matthew Garrett also reported some problems in
> > > that area with suspend/resume (BIOS restoring its idea of things...)
> >
> > Quite likely, WIN_RESTORE is not sent on resume etc.
> >
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