From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264519AbUGaVpM (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:45:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264286AbUGaVpM (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:45:12 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:56729 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264519AbUGaVpI (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: <410C12CA.7060109@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:44:42 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Alan Cox , Denis Vlasenko , Todd Poynor , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux Kernel Mailing List , tim.bird@am.sony.com, dsingleton@mvista.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays References: <20040730191100.GA22201@slurryseal.ddns.mvista.com> <1091226922.5083.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1091232770.1677.24.camel@mindpipe> <200407311434.59604.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1091297179.1677.290.camel@mindpipe> <1091302522.6910.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1091309723.1677.391.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1091309723.1677.391.camel@mindpipe> 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 Lee Revell wrote: > Even if it's not appropriate for this case, there have to be some places > in the kernel where this would be useful. What about hardware that is > broken, requiring a device-specific kludge? Hardware that the kernel > developers would prefer didn't exist. There have to be some of these. > Or are most of these already broken out and disabled by default like the > old CMD640 ide bug? Broken hardware will always exist. Sounds like you want CONFIG_PERFECT_WORLD ? Jeff