linux-kernel - Re: pata_it821x completely broken

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Date:	Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:08:00 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pata_it821x completely broken

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:10:14 +0200
Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 13 July 2008 13:35:10 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > The patch below fixes the IDENTIFY problem for me and makes the RAID
> > > array accessible. Is it OK or is there a better way to do it?
> >
> > Probably better to fix it in driver. Right now we don't have a way to
> > override the identify reading or post process it cleanly at it821x hacks
> > around that but if that was fixed then the special cases can all hide in
> > the driver where they belong.
> 
> That would be great but it requires some deeper libata and kernel programming 
> knowledge.

Not a lot I think so I've added it to my todo list if nobody else does it.
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