On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:15:10 Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:46:29 +0100 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > > You mean the content ? > > > 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 > > As you quoted the old PDC202xx driver does not work on my test hardware. > The libata one does. That is what is popularly known as a "fact". I'm not You want facts? Here we go: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250349 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457037 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/399616 > entirely happy with either PDC driver for older chips and I've spent > considerable time grovelling through old drivers, alternate drivers and > what little documentation exists to try and figure it out in more detail. > > The lost IRQ recovery patches seem to have helped a fair bit, and your > UDMA33 fix likewise. I regret this work -- because of it I share the blame for the new driver and keep getting complains about it.. > > for their (this includes me of course) hard work. > > All because you wouldn't work on the libata ones which had a future. You The rest of your mail is "the same good old straw-man" to put me back into specially created for me by you & co. "difficult to work with" box. Guys, "the devil" has been long out of the box.. :) -- 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
