On Iau, 2006-04-27 at 07:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Well overall I want to minimize the change from existing behavior, since > there is enough change as it is. In current libata and drivers/ide, it > can continue after a properly indicated DMA error without doing a reset. Sometimes. But the smarts in it also break some hardware horribly because the properly indicated DMA error doesn't neccessarily leave the state machines on the chip sane, and worse it sometimes does resets then recovery and thats ugly. > And I just think its rude, to reset hardware when it doesn't need > resetting. Its sorta like the Windows mentality -- "just reboot it, > that will fix stuff" Linux shouldn't be rude to hardware, when it need > not be :) Windows generally uses a 7 second timeout btw. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
