On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:48 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > The libata code is taking forever to catch up to modern reality, > mostly because so much of it lives eternally in Jeff's private > git repository, where only a few people ever exercise the code.
I'd suggest sending some of it to Andy Morton, so it becomes a -mm patch and it can be applied by non-git-people. Also imho it will get much wider testing. > As is, it's pretty good, except for the broken libata error handling > that (by default) locks up machines every hour or two. Exactly, that's why I don't use it for the moment. And that's why I had to patch the standard ide support's PCI ID list (and got some angry intel engineer barking on me). > But there's also a fix for that, again floating around only in private > repositories. Grmbl.
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