Re: [PATCH 12/15] alim15x3: ->speedproc, filter out invalid modes passed from user-space

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Monday 02 July 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > This would brake setups which currently work OK, i.e. BIOS set things up
> > (reminds me about cmd64x vs broken MWDMA)...
> > 
> > The RightThing(tm) to do is to fix alim15x3 driver to program DMA timings
> > (especially given that pata_ali seems to already contain the needed code).
> 
> I am not ready to trust that pata_ali works as well as alim15x3 in all 
> cases.  Someone should test e.g. Alpha AXP systems with IDE (use 
> alim15x3) to make sure all is well.

Sure but there is no problem with the new code in alim15x3 being X86 until
it is verified to work with Alpha AXP machines etc...

> alim15x3 covers buggy, ugly, quirky chipsets.  I consider that coverage 
> in general highly fragile.

and in case of MWDMA modes also highly dependent on BIOS settings
which very likely results in broken suspend/resume...

Thanks,
Bart
-
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystems]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux RAID]     [Git]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Newbie]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux