Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:26:31 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2 |
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On Sat Feb 28, 2004 at 02:20:22AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Dunno if I qualify as sufficiently 'really smart' enough but the > > last time I put in the considerable effort needed to re-sync the > > 2.4 and 2.6 IDE layers, and merge in the useful -ac bits that > > never made it into mainstream, nothing whatsoever came of my > > efforts... > > Did you actually split and send out your patches? :)
Yes.... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0175.html
> > My 2.4.x patches are in daily use by a large group of people > > and they work fine, for what it is worth. My IDE merging > > patches are the following: > > > > http://codepoet.org/kernel/ > > > > 020_ide_layer_2.4.22-ac4.bz2 > > Needs splitting and most of this stuff needs new re-sync with 2.6. :-(
Yup. After splitting and submitting to no effect it was less effort to maintain the lot as one big patch...
> > 021_ide_geom_hpa_capacity64.bz2 > > Now I remember why this wasn't applied. > It breaks braindamaged HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl > (because changes way drive->cyls is calculated). > We workaround-ed it in 2.6 by removing this ioctl. :) > I think we really should do the same for 2.4.
I did just that but it was rejected by Alan Cox... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.2/0193.html
-Erik
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