Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161277AbWHJNzG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:55:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161285AbWHJNzF (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:55:05 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:33762 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161277AbWHJNzE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:55:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel From: Alan Cox To: Jens Axboe Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060810122056.GP11829@suse.de> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1155213464.22922.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060810122056.GP11829@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:14:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1155219292.22922.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 17 Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 14:20 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jens Axboe: > You make it sound much worse than it is. Apart for HPA, I'm not aware of > any setups that require extra treatment. And the amount of reported bugs > against it are pretty close to zero :-) There are several variants where you get - hangs on resume - HPA mishandling - CRC errors and usually eventually a hang HPA thankfully appears to bite only IBM thinkpad users - 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/