Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> We don't do error handling for special commands (REQ_TYPE_ATA_*) at all,
> ide_error() just dumps device's status/error register(s) and finishes early:

Well that sounds bogus too, for all the same reasons already outlined. The 
DRQ flag needs to be cleared up on error!

> Moreover the problem was initially narrowed down to commit
> 852738f39258deafb3d89c187cb1a4050820d555 which is two commits _before_
> the one that we are currently discussing.

.. and that initial narrowing down is now in doubt, with the new one 
pointing to that DRQ-logic-changing commit!

IOW, Anders re-did things more carefully, and came to a new result. Why 
are you apparenrly ignoring that fact?

			Linus
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