On Monday 18 February 2008, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote: > Prefetch needs to be set for some ide devices to work when connected to > a ht6560b interface. This was not always done properly, causing a system > with a HD and CD on the primary interface to not work properly. Or, in > effect, hang hard. > > This patch forces prefetch on devices before checking whether it > is necessary to change the settings in the interface > > This patch should also be applied to 2.4. I don't currently have a > 2.4 tree around. > > (also change my email address) > > Signed-off-by: Jan Evert van Grootheest <janevert@xxxxxxxxx> I applied it as it is but could I ask you to follow up on the following (rather minor) issues: - According to observations from your testing and comments from Sergei/Alan it really seems that prefetch bit has reversed meaning so the driver should be updated to reflect it. - Could the old changelog be removed while we are at it? The detailed changelog is kept in the kernel git tree nowadays. 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
