From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262677AbULPOdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:33:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261935AbULPOcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:32:47 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.201]:2191 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262688AbULPOc3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:32:29 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=bSVMdxSjT86kxTXvhVyu+J4XGFBF9kdzmyVLWW0vcg6U0SREW0HuoVqJYhdob/ysPbyFutEHYQmVzBMAVXGMV20ZmFxyRvTnDQQrTqOXGhnldrOcllrkMmuNE8TgHi2FwNU8THESb8AOvnf1y4LivhJQUNhhN0qzxbI0ez1tK+c= Message-ID: <58cb370e041216063264dbb83e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:32:26 +0100 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [2.6.10-rc2+] ide1=ata66 -- OBSOLETE OPTION, WILL BE REMOVED SOON! Cc: Rene Herman , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04121606295fe384fc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41B36021.5050600@keyaccess.nl> <58cb370e04121313473057143b@mail.gmail.com> <1103154772.3585.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e04121606295fe384fc@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:29:19 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:52:52 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Llu, 2004-12-13 at 21:47, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > I do need a way to force an 80c cable on this AMD756 (ATA66 max) board, > > > > since the BIOS doesn't seem to be setting the cable bits correctly. > > > > > > Ugh, I checked AMD datasheets and AMD756 doesn't support host > > > side cable detection. Well, we can try doing disk side only for it. > > > [ ATi and ITE (in -ac kernels) drivers are also doing this. ] > > > > That is probably a good change but not sufficient for things like > > bladeservers where some vendors use short 40c cables which are within > > specification but break drive side detection. Removing ata66 forcing > > doesn't work because of these although perhaps it could be done using > > subvendor ids so it is automatic ? > > Yes, one of the aims of deprecating ata66 override was to see what can > be done automatically. The fewer special kernel parameters the better > (w/o sacrificing functionality of course). One thing I forgot - ata66 override alone ("idex=ata66") currently doesn't help in the case you've described - it overrides host side only. > > Right now I plan to keep ata66 overrides in -ac. > > Fine but I'm not going to remove them soon (warning is a bit strong > to help us gain more knowledge :), however it would be nice if somebody > could move them from IDE core to specific host drivers. > > Bartlomiej