On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 21:07 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > [ I also tried to encourage libata developers to look into making the needed > > > libata changes (see my initial posting of HPA patches) and I will still be > > > glad to help with libata patches if somebody would like to work on them > > > (Robert? Tejun?). ] > > > > OK, so back off on the 2.6.30-rc7 release of this and I'll undertake to > > get libata engaged for integrating this into both subsystems for > > 2.6.31 ... does that sound fair? > > libata already is, and I've been following and reviewing the patches. The > problem remaining is basically that this is not the time to merge > it. Actually, I was talking about the fallback to disabling heuristic which this patch set introduces, and which would fix bug 13365 if it were applied to libata, but which is the bit I think needs some testing. > It will probably also be worth looking at the way the CD driver plays > fast and loose with capacity when handling CD-R devices as a follow on > from this stuff. James -- 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
