From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:12:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013201215.50541413@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201110131806.27248.bzolnier@gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:08 +0200
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:03:34 +0200
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> >
> > Have you tested this. When I talked with Intel people about parallel
> > scanning nobody in Intel I could find could answer whether it was safe on
> > the ancient PIIX versions.
>
> No, it wasn't tested on the real hardware.
>
> I think it should be in libata-dev or -mm/-next for rather long time..
I don't see it's worth adding, its near impossible to test and its for
old hardware that doesn't fast boot anyway. Really it's the netbook
generation devices where this matters.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 14:03 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-10-13 15:47 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-13 16:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-10-13 19:12 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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