Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:28:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:28:06 -0500 Received: from 216-239-45-4.google.com ([216.239.45.4]:63260 "EHLO 216-239-45-4.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:28:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3E23696A.9040006@google.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:35:38 -0800 From: Ross Biro User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Biro CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Alan Cox , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 References: <200301121807.h0CI7Qp04542@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1042399796.525.215.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <1042403235.16288.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1042401074.525.219.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <3E230A4D.6020706@google.com> <1042484609.30837.31.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <3E23114E.8070400@google.com> <1042491409.586.4.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <3E233160.3040901@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ross Biro wrote: >>> >>> This is technically a spec violation, but it's probably safe. I'm >>> going to send an email to a couple of the drive manufacturers and >>> see what they think. >>> >> I just heard back from one ide controller chip vendor and they think we should disable PCI write posting. From the tone of the response, I believe that they may not have thought of this before and it may be a problem in their non-opensource drivers as well. Ross - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/