On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:43:34 +0000 Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:12 -0500 > Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I don't know if they're still concerns, nor if they're fatal concerns > > > either. But I've been sitting on that patch for nearly five months. > > > > This isn't driver-specific, so a similar change should be applied to the > > core. > > Agreed - it belongs in the core code. We see the same problem on multiple > controllers and its one of the big things that at the moment makes it > impossible to progress the PATA drivers further. A five month stall of a patch which makes the difference betweem "working" and "not working" sounds pretty serious. Is this something someone is working on? If not, is it something which Matthieu might have time to look into (please?) - To unsubscribe from this list: 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