Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> I'm gonna work on parallel probing for libata.  I think we can easily
>> hide extra 2 secs of waiting with parallel probing.  It will take some
>> time but that seems to be the 'right' thing to do especially considering
>> the fact that 150ms sleep has been enough for gazillions of ATA devices
>> during last decade except for this GoVault drive.
> 
> 
> FWIW I don't mind polling for a /maximum/ of $N seconds, but I want to
> stress that any patch that blatantly adds stuff like
> 
>     if (status == 0xff)
>         mdelay(2000)
> 
> will be rejected.

Aye aye captain.  I wouldn't do that myself either.

-- 
tejun
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