Andrew Morton wrote:
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?)
Doing SETXFER via polling is proposed as solution and verfivied by Matthieu.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/13248/focus=13248
The patch has been updated and re-submitted a few days ago.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/14088/focus=14088
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tejun
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