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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:08 +0200
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:03:34 +0200
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] pata_oldpiix: enable parallel scan
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> >
> > Have you tested this. When I talked with Intel people about parallel
> > scanning nobody in Intel I could find could answer whether it was safe on
> > the ancient PIIX versions.
>
> No, it wasn't tested on the real hardware.
>
> I think it should be in libata-dev or -mm/-next for rather long time..

I don't see it's worth adding, its near impossible to test and its for
old hardware that doesn't fast boot anyway. Really it's the netbook
generation devices where this matters.


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