On Friday 13 November 2009 19:25:15 Alan Cox wrote: > > Fine but please update status of following host drivers that were > > marked as "stable" prematurely by commit e3389cb first: > > > > PATA_PDC_OLD: needs to be marked as EXPERIMENTAL (or just BROKEN) > > - known reliability problems with UDMA > > A few odd reports apparently linked to specific chip revs. It's at > least as stable as the old IDE one which doesn't work on my hardware. I'd Skipping the technical merit of the quoted text for the moment -- I find the fact that you keep calling the present IDE host drivers (that many developers helped to fix) as "old" ones or "buggy" ones rather degrading for their (this includes me of course) hard work. Especially given your complete lack of familiarity with post-2004 changes. See for yourself, *50* mostly _trivial_ patches during *5* years: [ "git log --follow --since="5 years ago" drivers/ide|grep "Author: Alan Cox" -B1 -A3" output edited for easier reading ] commit d878829 piix: The Sony TZ90 needs the cable type hardcoding commit ccd32e2 ide: Switch to a common address commit 1bee4d1 pdc202xx_old: remove surplus initialiser commit d3bad45 dtc2278: note on docs commit 9702b5d ide: Stop mapping ROMs commit 7859557 ide: Fix a theoretical Ooops case commit 2074a10 ide/pci/serverworks.c: Fix corruption/timeouts with MegaIDE commit 640b31b sl82c105: Switch to ref counting API commit 846c11a ide: remove a ton of pointless #undef REALLY_SLOW_IO commit 8693d3e siimage: DRAC4 note commit fdb77da ide-floppy: Fix unformatted media crash commit 3e9e4c8 ide/generic: Jmicron has its own drivers now commit ee2f344 [PATCH] ide-cd: Handle strange interrupt on the Intel ESB2 commit 6451956 [PATCH] ide: complete switch to pci_get commit b148900 [PATCH] ide: more conversion to pci_get APIs commit 23a1b2a [PATCH] via82cxxx: handle error condition properly commit c333526 [PATCH] JMB 368 PATA detection commit 3a42bb2 [PATCH] ide: add sanity checking to ide taskfile ioctl commit 3719bc5 [PATCH] ide-generic: jmicron fix commit 652aa16 [PATCH] IDE: more pci_find cleanup commit 913759a [PATCH] ide: Fix crash on repeated reset commit 5ac2469 [PATCH] ide: backport piix fixes from libata into the legacy.. commit bbb3bbd [PATCH] non-libata driver for Jmicron devices commit 40cddf2 [PATCH] sis5513: Switch to pci refcounting commit 970a613 [PATCH] serverworks: Switch to pci refcounted interfaces commit 1424e50 [PATCH] piix: Use refcounted interface when searching for a .. commit 28a2a3f [PATCH] Fix 2.6.18-rc6 IDE breakage, add missing ident neede.. commit a7dec1e [PATCH] Missing PCI id update for VIA IDE commit 79860a9 [PATCH] PATCH: 2.6.18 oops on boot fix for IDE commit 15e0c69 [PATCH] ide: fix Jmicron support commit faab17b [PATCH] Fix problem with ATAPI DMA on IT8212 in Linux commit 3706a87 [PATCH] Set err_stops_fifo for newer Promise as well commit 57e834e [PATCH] ide: clean up pdc202xx_old so its more readable (don.. commit f201f50 [PATCH] ide: housekeeping on IDE drivers commit da574af [PATCH] ide: fix error handling for drives which clear the F.. commit 2930d1b [PATCH] SC1200 debug printk commit 19c1ef5 [PATCH] ide: clean up siimage commit 1a1276e [PATCH] Old IDE, fix SATA detection for cabling commit 4fb0f76 [PATCH] Fix IDE locking error commit dbe217a [PATCH] IDE CD end-of media error fix commit d266ab8 [PATCH] Small fixes backported to old IDE SiS driver commit 0c866b5 [PATCH] ide: set latency when resetting it821x out of firmwa.. commit d7d7634 [PATCH] ide: clean up the garbage in eighty_ninty_three commit da9091e [PATCH] ide: it8212 backport for Bartlomiej IDE commit bb732d7 [PATCH] ide: fix crashes with hotplug serverworks commit b39b01f [PATCH] ide: fix the HPT366 driver layer commit b189346 [PATCH] ide: ide-generic, allow for capture of other unsuppo.. commit 68ad991 [PATCH] ide: IDE timing violation on reset commit 58ecd15 [PATCH] ide: samsung SN-124 works perfectly well with DMA commit 6efd936 [PATCH] ide: fix ide-disk inability to handle LBA only devic.. Despite this it seems that at least LWN.net seems to treat your opinions with completely undeserved seriousness.. Weird. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- 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
