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Message-ID: <46C2A69F.6020004@garzik.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:19 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC: akpm@...l.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Correct IORDY handling
Alan Cox wrote:
> Debugging a report of a problem with an ancient solid state disk showed
> up some problems in the IORDY handling
>
> 1. We check the wrong bit to see if the device has IORDY
> 2. Even then some ancient creaking piles of crap don't support
> SETXFER at all.
>
> I think this should go via -mm for a bit. The cases it fixes are obscure
> and the risk of side effects is slight but possible. This also moves us
> slightly closer to supporting original MFM/RLL disks with libata but
> before Jeff panics I have no plans to do that....
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
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