> For some of these timeout issues I think it would make things a bit > easier to diagnose, certainly.. With some controllers there might be a > little bit of risk (nForce4 seems to be one of those twitchy ones, > whether in ADMA mode or not, at least for command errors, possibly not > for timeouts), however certainly for ones like AHCI which just store the > D2H register FIS in memory, there's really no reason not to read it out.. The timeout patches are not yet upstream because they needed a bit of further work for some controllers that subclass SFF but aren't very SFF so broke when the default timeout method was used. Thats all fixed now and waiting for the next update. 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
