> This is about time we make decision on this. If we're gonna go I thought everyone but you had made a decision ;) > DMA-for-everything way, we should lift 16 byte default masking for -mm > and -rc's as that only makes debugging difficult and try to blacklist > offending devices and controllers individually. Would be a useful experiment for -mm not really I think for -rc. > My primary concern is about not achieving enough test coverage and > isolated cases where it's difficult to tell whether it's the device or > the controller. e.g. Loading recent distro on an ancient and/or strange > machine, scratching head while cursing and giving up. Watching the Fedora bugzilla I don't see things that match up to your descriptions and fixes. Indeed I've now got verification that the weird ALi ATAPI problem a few people have isn't even fixed by your extreme changes. 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
