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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:56:25 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
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On Sun, Sep 29 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 18:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I can say that the IDE code is the same code that is in 2.4.x, so if 
> > you're comfortable with 2.4.x wrt IDE, then you should be comfy with 
> > 2.5.x too.
> 
> *NO*
> 
> The IDE code is the experimental code in 2.4-ac. It is _NOT_ the IDE
> code in 2.4 and its a lot less tested. I don't think it has any
> corruption bugs but it is most definitely not the base 2.4 code and has
> plenty of non corruption bugs (PCMCIA hang, taskfile write hang, irq
> blocking performance problems)

2.5 at least does not have the taskfile hang, because I killed taskfile
io.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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