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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:44:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Ross Biro <rossb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4
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Ross,

Is wonderful how you can not say who the vendor is who is violating the
spec.  *sigh*

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Ross Biro wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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Andre Hedrick
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