Re: + via-pata-controller-xfer-fixes.patch added to -mm tree

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jun 30 2006 - 05:46:44 EST


Ar Gwe, 2006-06-30 am 15:09 +0800, ysgrifennodd Albert Lee:
> If it is the problem of the specific ATAPI device, all controllers
> should be affected, not only VIA. So, strange not seeing the problem on
> Promise.

That may be because of the way the chips handle buffering of interrupt
delivery and readahead/writebehind. I have two traces on the ALi
chipsets that look like the delayed response problem.


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