Re: [PATCH 4/5] pata: Update experimental tags

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Alan Cox wrote:

> > BTW we can immediately reclaim 300 LOC by simply merging drivers back..

> LoC - lines of comments ? (at least half of them).

> Been testing a bit before fixing up the pata_hpt drivers. Resume from S2R
> doesn't work with drivers/ide/hpt366.c. So it may have code for resume
> but it doesn't actually work for all the chips.

> Reason is fairly obvious - the PCI speed detection logic is broken except
> for the case of a PC boot where the ROM BIOS for the HPT3xx is run. That

   Point out the breakage please. The driver has been developed and tested 
on non-x86 machine with 66 MHz PCI.

> doesn't occur on a resume from RAM so a 66MHz clocked motherboard device
> comes back with the speed guessed wrongly.

WBR, Sergei
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