The patch titled
     paride: pf driver fixes
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     paride-pf-driver-fixes.patch

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Subject: paride: pf driver fixes
From: Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The pf driver for parallel port floppy drives seems to be broken.  At least
with Imation SuperDisk with EPAT chip, the driver calls pi_connect() and
pi_disconnect after each transferred sector.  At least with EPAT, this
operation is very expensive - causes drive recalibration.  Thus, transferring
even a single byte (dd if=/dev/pf0 of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1) takes 20
seconds, making the driver useless.

The pf_next_buf() function seems to be broken as it returns 1 always (except
when pf_run is non-zero), causing the loop in do_pf_read_drq (and
do_pf_write_drq) to be executed only once.

The following patch fixes this problem.  It also fixes swapped descriptions in
pf_lock() function and removes DBMSG macro, which seems useless.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/block/paride/pf.c |   25 ++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/block/paride/pf.c~paride-pf-driver-fixes 
drivers/block/paride/pf.c
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pf.c~paride-pf-driver-fixes
+++ a/drivers/block/paride/pf.c
@@ -488,13 +488,11 @@ static int pf_atapi(struct pf_unit *pf, 
        return r;
 }
 
-#define DBMSG(msg)      ((verbose>1)?(msg):NULL)
-
 static void pf_lock(struct pf_unit *pf, int func)
 {
        char lo_cmd[12] = { ATAPI_LOCK, pf->lun << 5, 0, 0, func, 0, 0, 0, 0, 
0, 0, 0 };
 
-       pf_atapi(pf, lo_cmd, 0, pf_scratch, func ? "unlock" : "lock");
+       pf_atapi(pf, lo_cmd, 0, pf_scratch, func ? "lock" : "unlock");
 }
 
 static void pf_eject(struct pf_unit *pf)
@@ -555,7 +553,7 @@ static void pf_mode_sense(struct pf_unit
            { ATAPI_MODE_SENSE, pf->lun << 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0 };
        char buf[8];
 
-       pf_atapi(pf, ms_cmd, 8, buf, DBMSG("mode sense"));
+       pf_atapi(pf, ms_cmd, 8, buf, "mode sense");
        pf->media_status = PF_RW;
        if (buf[3] & 0x80)
                pf->media_status = PF_RO;
@@ -591,7 +589,7 @@ static void pf_get_capacity(struct pf_un
        char buf[8];
        int bs;
 
-       if (pf_atapi(pf, rc_cmd, 8, buf, DBMSG("get capacity"))) {
+       if (pf_atapi(pf, rc_cmd, 8, buf, "get capacity")) {
                pf->media_status = PF_NM;
                return;
        }
@@ -804,13 +802,18 @@ static int pf_next_buf(void)
        pf_buf += 512;
        pf_block++;
        if (!pf_run)
-               return 0;
-       if (!pf_count)
                return 1;
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&pf_spin_lock, saved_flags);
-       pf_end_request(1);
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pf_spin_lock, saved_flags);
-       return 1;
+       if (!pf_count) {
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&pf_spin_lock, saved_flags);
+               pf_end_request(1);
+               pf_req = elv_next_request(pf_queue);
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pf_spin_lock, saved_flags);
+               if (!pf_req)
+                       return 1;
+               pf_count = pf_req->current_nr_sectors;
+               pf_buf = pf_req->buffer;
+       }
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static inline void next_request(int success)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

paride-pf-driver-fixes.patch

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