From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:18:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:17:59 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:29970 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:17:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDA6822.8080308@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 14:14:26 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick CC: Alan Cox , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linus Torvalds , Bjorn Wesen , Paul Mackerras , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE 58 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Andre Hedrick napisa?: > Alan, we talked about this and the driver/hardware has a flaw. > If you count the total number of single IO operations to check > status/error et al., it is out right fugly. Preprocessing will kill us > like today. You mean the preprocessing in the devices firmware program of course? Just to confirm I did get it right...