Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751361AbVJTNqg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751359AbVJTNqg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:36 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:56449 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751361AbVJTNqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup From: Alan Cox To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <200510171006.39206.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> References: <20051017044606.GA1266@havoc.gtf.org> <200510170952.34174.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <4353D96F.90805@pobox.com> <200510171006.39206.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:14:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1129817684.15200.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 15 > So sometimes the legacy IDE driver will lock up when it tries to drive > both ports in a combined configuration? In that case, can't we just > disable the legacy IDE driver for these chips and force the use of the > libata version? Now that libata is beginning to behave well I'd vote for that option, however in kernel libata lacks several essential items for PATA feature parity (HPA, ATAPI, suspend/resume, correct tuning). It's getting there and I've got some more stuff waiting for Jeff, but it isn't there yet - 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/