Richard Purdie wrote:
- * FIXME: This treatment is probably applicable for *all* PCMCIA (PC CARD)
- * devices, so in linux 2.3.x we should change this to just treat all
- * PCMCIA drives this way, and get rid of the model-name tests below
- * (too big of an interface change for 2.4.x).
- * At that time, we might also consider parameterizing the timeouts and
- * retries, since these are MUCH faster than mechanical drives. -M.Lord
- */
I believe the latter half of those comments (timeouts) should
be left in the IDE layer (somewhere), as a note to current/future
maintainers about something that does need fixing eventually.
Something like this:
/*
* FIXME: Someday we ought to parameterize IDE timeouts to use
* much smaller values when dealing with flash memory cards.
* For example, these devices never require more than a second
* (much less, actually) for "spin-up", compared with a limit
* of 31 seconds for mechanical ATA drives. This would speed up
* error recovery for these popular devices, especially in embedded work
*/
Cheers
-M.Lord
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