Tejun Heo wrote:
I'm gonna work on parallel probing for libata. I think we can easily hide extra 2 secs of waiting with parallel probing. It will take some time but that seems to be the 'right' thing to do especially considering the fact that 150ms sleep has been enough for gazillions of ATA devices during last decade except for this GoVault drive.
FWIW I don't mind polling for a /maximum/ of $N seconds, but I want to stress that any patch that blatantly adds stuff like
if (status == 0xff) mdelay(2000) will be rejected. Jeff - 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
