Re: Linux v2.6.22-rc3

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> I'm about to dive into some heads-down RHEL backporting (whee), so I cannot
> look at the code in depth this weekend, but here are my basic thoughts:
> 
> * We knew there would be fallout from the new reset-sequence code, and this is
> clearly in that category.
> 
> * It worked before #reset-seq merge AFAICT, which implies the old method of
> probing -- which included SRST -- worked.

Well, I don't think it really "worked" before. It apparently always had a 
bad 30-second timeout (probably because the reset just didn't work at 
all). It's just that the old code didn't care, and since the identify then 
worked, it was all good.

		Linus
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