> Well, if we change that in #upstream now, -mm will receive it and after > 2.6.24 is released, it will end up in -rc1. We can change it back if > the damage is too grave. Getting it in -rc is going to mess up other testing. It's perfect for -mm testing not -rc testing. > Yeah, ALi seems to be genuine driver problem. I don't think using PIO > for misc ATAPI commands is extreme considering Windows is doing it. Windows does a lot of things that are bad and ugly workarounds for messes in the past. We have the ability to do a lot better than that. > Another thing is check_atapi_dma in sata_promise. It mentions losing > interrupt which is exactly what happens if the drive tries to transfer > more data but DMA buffer is short on several controllers. I wonder > whether this is unnecessary with DMA draining added. Is it like the inic where you must do transfers in specific chunk sizes ? - 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
