From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261877AbUBEEyr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:54:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263823AbUBEEyr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:54:47 -0500 Received: from esperance.ozonline.com.au ([203.23.159.248]:40139 "EHLO ozonline.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261877AbUBEEyp (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:54:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:51:14 +1100 From: Davin McCall To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] various IDE patches/cleanups Message-Id: <20040205145114.3a3d8bd5.davmac@ozonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200402032041.09696.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> References: <20040103152802.6e27f5c5.davmac@ozonline.com.au> <200401061213.39843.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040130142725.1a408f9e.davmac@ozonline.com.au> <200402032041.09696.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:41:09 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Thanks! I'm slowly reading through them (yeah, code is really complex). I'm also trying to put together some brief documentation on how the code/data structures fit together. Perhaps I should post it when I'm done? Might be useful for anyone else looking at the IDE layer. > Patch 3rd and 5th seems okay, 2nd and 4th need some more checking/thinking. 3rd and 5th are also the most worthwhile, I think. 2nd and 4th are really only optimizations. Hopefully there are no problems with them, though. > > The first patch, below, is already included in the -mm tree. The further > > patches are appearing here for the first time. > > It was pushed to Linus and merged. Good :-) Considering how many tries it took me to get it right, I'm glad it's gotten in... /Davin