Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays

Lee Revell
2004-07-31T00:12:37Z

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 18:35, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 20:11, Todd Poynor wrote:
> > IDE initialization and probing makes numerous calls to sleep for 50
> > milliseconds while waiting for the interface to return probe status and
> > such.
>
> Please make it taint the kernel if you do that so we can ignore all the
> bug reports. That or justify it with a cite from the ATA standards ?
>

Works great on my hardware. Well worth the savings in boot time.

Lee