Re: [PATCH 1/1] ide: Allow disabling of UDMA for Compact Flashdevices

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2006-04-17 at 16:11 -0700, James Ausmus wrote:
> Some IDE -> Compact Flash media adapters are not capable of supporting
> UDMA, which can cause very slow boot times when the CF media itself
> reports as capable of UDMA transfer speeds. Create Kconfig option to
> turn off the UDMA capability bit when media is identified as Compact
> Flash.

This would be far better if it was a boot time option than a kernel
configuration or set using sysfs/procfs controls as users will not want
to recompile their kernel in such cases.

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