Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.8.1-ck7, Two Badnessess, one dump.

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Sep 13 2004, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> >Is your drive idle while applying dma settings? Current 2.6 kernels
> >aren't even close to being safe to modify drive settings, since it makes
> >no effective attempts to serialize with ongoing commands. I have a
> >half-assed patch to fix that.
> 
> 1.  Sorry about the HTML

Didn't see any?

> 2.  How half-assed is the patch / what is it likely to break?

It's only half-assed in concept, because it doesn't cover some obscure
corner cases which you aren't affected by. It wont break. See previous
mail.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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