From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265612AbTF2JTf (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:19:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265613AbTF2JTf (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:19:35 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:16907 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265612AbTF2JTe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:19:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 02:30:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Jan-Benedict Glaw cc: Jeff Garzik , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Testing IDE-TCQ and Taskfile - doesn't work nicely:) In-Reply-To: <20030629081447.GC29233@lug-owl.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You missed a point. Defaulting to off means stablity for the masses. Enduser enable is for testing to get it correct. Regardless, it was my $0.02 for the thread. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-28 19:17:53 -0700, Andre Hedrick > wrote in message : > > > > The best rule is to default it off and let the end user enable regardless. > > Thus the default will NEVER encounter the issues seen now. > > While I was the one who initially had the "trouble", I was thankful for > having a "Switch It On by Default" option. I don't exactly know what the > patch did to the IDE subsystem (personally I'm not really into IDE...), > but I'd unhide a problem (either my dumb drive/controller setup or a bug > in Linux' IDE code) and so - one more bug down (at least from my point > of view). That's a good thing, IMHO. > > This *is* why I'm using 2.5.x - there's actually a chance to easily find > bugs with everybody's hardware:) > > MfG, JBG > > -- > Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 > "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg > fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! > ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA)); >