Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267165AbUJFE0W (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:26:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267170AbUJFE0W (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:26:22 -0400 Received: from smtp201.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.91]:14250 "HELO smtp201.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267165AbUJFE0U (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:26:20 -0400 Message-ID: <416373E8.4020900@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:26:16 +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: Andrea Arcangeli , 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: <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> <41635248.5090903@yahoo.com.au> <20041006020734.GA29383@havoc.gtf.org> <20041006031726.GK26820@dualathlon.random> <4163660A.4010804@pobox.com> <20041006040323.GL26820@dualathlon.random> <41636FCF.3060600@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <41636FCF.3060600@pobox.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 Content-Length: 490 Lines: 14 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Preempt will always be something I ask people to turn off when reporting > driver bugs; > That's a valid angle of attack. If their problem goes away, that helps narrow it down to a specific type of bug in your driver. - 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/