Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata,VIA SATA))

[Nick Piggin]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >
> > > And with preempt you're still hiding stuff that needs fixing.  And when 
> > > it gets fixed, you don't need preempt.
> > >
> > > Therefore, preempt is just a hack that hides stuff that wants fixing anyway.

What is it hiding exactly?

> > This actually sounds like the argument for preempt, and against
>
>
> As opposed to fixing drivers???  Please fix the drivers and code first.

I thought you just said preempt should be turned off because it
breaks things (ie. as opposed to fixing the things that it breaks).

But anyway, yeah obviously fixing drivers always == good. I don't
think anybody advocated otherwise.
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