From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753483Ab1JMTMX (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:12:23 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:43547 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752352Ab1JMTMW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:12:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:12:15 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan Message-ID: <20111013201215.50541413@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <201110131806.27248.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <201110131603.34443.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20111013164753.69a5e92c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <201110131806.27248.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:08 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:03:34 +0200 > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > > Subject: [PATCH] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > > > 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.