From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266802AbUH0SE5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:04:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266808AbUH0SE5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:04:57 -0400 Received: from daq3.if.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.174.23]:3201 "HELO milosz.na.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266802AbUH0SE4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:04:56 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: bzolnier@milosz.na.pl To: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:05:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Greg Stark , Denis Vlasenko , Alan Cox , Todd Poynor , Linux Kernel Mailing List , tim.bird@am.sony.com, dsingleton@mvista.com References: <20040730191100.GA22201@slurryseal.ddns.mvista.com> <87wtzkmq4l.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <1093629202.837.37.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1093629202.837.37.camel@krustophenia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408272005.08407.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 27 August 2004 19:53, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:45, Greg Stark wrote: > > Lee Revell writes: > > > I wonder if 83 probes are really necessary. Maybe this could be > > > optimized a bit. > > > > Or if the kernel could be doing something useful during that time. I > > don't suppose it's possible to probe two different ide interfaces at the > > same time, is it? > > Did the patch to move this into a #define ever get merged? Seems like a > no brainer, as it eliminates a magic number. No and it won't because it is not a 'magic number' but rather a 'random number' (see Alan's mail for explanation). BTW Lee, 48-bit addressing doesn't mean that capacity > 137GB