From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:55:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:55:40 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:46399 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:55:40 -0500 To: Alan Cox Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make ide-probe more robust to non-ready devices References: <1041672876.1346.23.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <1041713307.2036.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 05 Jan 2003 00:03:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1041713307.2036.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 09:34, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I don't expect this patch to break any existing working configuration, > > so please send to Linus for 2.5. If you accept it, I'll then send a 2.4 > > version to Marcelo as well. This have been around for some time and, > > imho, should really get in now. > > There is a ton of stuff pending for 2.5 IDE. Unfortunately 2.5 isn't in > a state I can do any usable testing so it will have to wait. The Marcelo > 2.4 tree is current and I'm doing the work in 2.4 first now. > > Rusty seems to have a lot of the module stuff in hand so hopefully I'll > get back onto 2.5 after LCA Whatever the kernel is let me send a hearty me to on this one. I have been doing something similar without problems. I have heard reports that there are some drive/controller combinations that polling the BSY bit does not work on to get them past the initial drive spin up state. However waiting for BSY to clear is no worse than anything else on those setups, and this works for quite a few. Eric