From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756183AbZFGUh6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:37:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754707AbZFGUhu (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:37:50 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com ([209.85.218.213]:62747 "EHLO mail-bw0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754328AbZFGUht (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:37:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=N4yJxPo1o27QDL2IJND5WaLBwiFtn8TAg2QafK8zOAtwegfvrgrnouW4dpq6ZKDwLu vHyQVg2WN6BW1EnOda9UYsklVtS+ESnJ+impfpOOZwMAgsteqEFF5okkiGADw9jM2Ir3 YCsCGFEKtNs0wsnIdnpXLLqYhlwd6BIrZgKSs= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:42:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.30-rc8-next-20090605-07377-g5acd34e; KDE/4.2.3; i686; ; ) Cc: James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200906071444.33047.bzolnier@gmail.com> <1244401729.8262.102.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090607210701.78103188@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090607210701.78103188@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906072242.38021.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 June 2009 22:07:01 Alan Cox wrote: > > > [ I also tried to encourage libata developers to look into making the needed > > > libata changes (see my initial posting of HPA patches) and I will still be > > > glad to help with libata patches if somebody would like to work on them > > > (Robert? Tejun?). ] > > > > OK, so back off on the 2.6.30-rc7 release of this and I'll undertake to > > get libata engaged for integrating this into both subsystems for > > 2.6.31 ... does that sound fair? > > libata already is, and I've been following and reviewing the patches. The > problem remaining is basically that this is not the time to merge > it. In ide's case the situation is a bit different: This is a bug fix. Not an obvious one but it will help anyone installing a new distribution/kernel using ide on machine with HPA, as it will allow this user for streamline transition to a distribution/kernel using libata later if needed (even though I don't recommend it :). I just want a fair treatment. I'm not posting crap -rc pull request so I see no reason why I have to pay for other maintainers mistakes. This was better tested and reviewed that some other changes that got in after 2.6.30-rc8 (and is smaller than at least one other pull request that got in). I even admitted in the pull request that this may be too late but based on my technical judgment (strongly backed by on reviews from you and Sergei) I considered those changes to be on the edge... It is not a *must*have* for 2.6.30 but still 2.6.30 *shall*have* it. > It will probably also be worth looking at the way the CD driver plays > fast and loose with capacity when handling CD-R devices as a follow on > from this stuff. Sure and it would be easier to look into this (and libata changes) with partitions/ide changes in.