Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

Any news about URLs?  It shouldn't be too hard find them unless they
never existed in the first place. I will work on the issues immediately.

Bartlomiej

On 8/14/05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 17:56 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > * your stuff was accepted after all (and some stuff like ide-cd
> > >   fixes was never splitted from the -ac patchset and submitted)
> >
> > They were.
> 
> I remember discussion about end-of-media ide-cd fixes but the patch
> was never submitted.  If you have *URL* to the patch I'll work on the patch.
> 
> > > * you've never provided any technical details on "the stuff I broke"
> >
> > I did, several times. I had some detailed locking discussions with
> > Manfred and others on it as a result. The locking in the base IDE is
> > still broken, in fact its become worse - the random locking around
> > timing changes now causes some PIIX users to see double spinlock debug
> > with the base kernel as an example.
> 
> Huh?  *WHICH* my patch causes this?
> 
> I don't remember this discussion et all, care to give some pointers?
> 
> > > > Would make sense, but I thought I had the right bits masked. Will take a
> > >
> > > WIN_RESTORE is send unconditionally (as it always was),
> > >
> > > This is not the right thing, somebody should go over all ATA/ATAPI
> > > drafts and come with the correct strategy of handling WIN_RESTORE.
> >
> > Ok that would make sense. Matthew Garrett also reported some problems in
> > that area with suspend/resume (BIOS restoring its idea of things...)
> 
> Quite likely, WIN_RESTORE is not sent on resume etc.
>
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