> Should this be queued for 2.6.24? > > The note I have on this is "low priority, make sure it gets testing in > -mm first" Its been tested without any reports. There are two things it sorts out #1 non x86 systems with firmware that doesn't init the chip into PIO0 (not many as most chips power up in pio0) #2 A few obscure cases where we error and then can't recover an ATA drive as we are talking PIO4 at it and its in PIO0 so we are burbling too fast (the other way around is of course ok) Alan - 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