On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:08 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:03:34 +0200 > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: [PATCH] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Have you tested this. When I talked with Intel people about parallel > > scanning nobody in Intel I could find could answer whether it was safe on > > the ancient PIIX versions. > > No, it wasn't tested on the real hardware. > > I think it should be in libata-dev or -mm/-next for rather long time.. I don't see it's worth adding, its near impossible to test and its for old hardware that doesn't fast boot anyway. Really it's the netbook generation devices where this matters. -- 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
