Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:44:45 -0800
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
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        Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Regression 3.2 -> 3.3-rc1 10 sec hang at boot and resume,
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Hello,

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:20:45AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> I see the following options:
> (1) implement a flag that can be passed through ahci_platform; this
> would not be very useful, as we would still have to tweak the driver
> out of tree.

Yeah, please add module param to make this behavior conditional.

> (2) Drop the fix entirely. This is a spec. violation, but we can
> simply try to maintain the fix out-of-tree.

Nothing is perfect and real hardware should come before spec.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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