From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:05:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:05:33 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:38800 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:05:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:05:17 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Martin Dalecki Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Alan Cox , Gerald Champagne , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.18 IDE 73 Message-ID: <20020529190517.A19854@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <1022680784.2945.24.camel@wiley> <3CF4D19F.9080402@evision-ventures.com> <20020529183343.A19610@ucw.cz> <1022694938.9255.269.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020529190135.A19776@ucw.cz> <3CF4FC52.7080406@evision-ventures.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:05:38PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:55:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > >>>Also for black/whitelists. And we're going to need those, though maybe > >>>the current data in them is not worth much. > >> > >>I'm hopeful they still are. The early drives with DMA problems won't > >>have changed over time, and I've been updating the others when I get > >>data from vendors. Promise for example recently sent me a couple to add > > > > > > The early drives haven't changed, but the drivers for the controllers > > which they were tested on changed (or will change soon). Namely the > > lists of PIO mode limits were wrong very often. This is mainly because > > some of the (now almost unused) drivers program the timings incorrectly > > into the controller registers. > > > > I can't say much about the more recent entries, except for that it'd be > > nice to add a date when the entry was last tested and with what result > > to each of them over time. > > And plese note as well that we don't need the whole id struct, but just > the name of the drive as well. Which is much less of a hassle anyway. Correct. And the manufacturer and the revision. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs