Re: [PATCH] Override 80-wire cable detection for Toshiba S1800-814

From: Al Boldi
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 00:31:49 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
> Daniel Exner <dex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Attached patch will add above mentioned Laptop Model to whitelist for both
>> pata_ali and alim15x3, as it is correctly detected as 40-wire connected
>> but this cable is short enough to still do transfers higher than UDMA33.
>
> Looks good to me - does need a Signed-off-by: line however

Wow! I have been running 80wire cable detection override on 40wire cables
for quite some time without any problem, but I never thought it to be legal
if the 40wire cable length is short enough.

How short does it have to be, and can't we have a kernel bootparm to override
the cable detection?


Thanks!

--
Al

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