Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266683AbUJFCDJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:03:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266687AbUJFCDJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:03:09 -0400 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:4443 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266683AbUJFCDG (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:03:06 -0400 Message-ID: <41635248.5090903@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:02:48 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Robert Love , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) References: <4136E4660006E2F7@mail-7.tiscali.it> <41634236.1020602@pobox.com> <52is9or78f.fsf_-_@topspin.com> <4163465F.6070309@pobox.com> <41634A34.20500@yahoo.com.au> <41634CF3.5040807@pobox.com> <1097027575.5062.100.camel@localhost> <20041006015515.GA28536@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20041006015515.GA28536@havoc.gtf.org> 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 Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 30 Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > >>On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> >>>And with preempt you're still hiding stuff that needs fixing. And when >>>it gets fixed, you don't need preempt. >>> >>>Therefore, preempt is just a hack that hides stuff that wants fixing anyway. What is it hiding exactly? >> >>This actually sounds like the argument for preempt, and against > > > As opposed to fixing drivers??? Please fix the drivers and code first. > I thought you just said preempt should be turned off because it breaks things (ie. as opposed to fixing the things that it breaks). But anyway, yeah obviously fixing drivers always == good. I don't think anybody advocated otherwise. - 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/