Re: [PATCH 4/5] pata: Update experimental tags

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Nov 19 2009 - 12:49:12 EST


On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:38:11 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:38 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > already have a buggy cable detection (since ->pre_reset ignores the mandatory
> > > >
> > > > Wrong.
> > >
> > > You cannot know it unless you know how chip operates internally. That's it.
> >
> > Read the code. How the chip operates is irrelevant.
>
> lol, there is a genuine cable detection bug in pata_hpt3x2n on closer look...

Oh you found it now I told you which one was buggy - well done. Already
patched along with adding suspend/resume and fixing a performance funny.
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