Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
| From: | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> | |
| To: | Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> | |
| Subject: | please DON'T run 2.5.27 with IDE! | |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:37:13 +0200 (MET DST) | |
| Cc: | <martin@dalecki.de> |
IDE 99 which is included in 2.5.27 introduced really nasty bug. Possible lockups and data corruption. Please do not. Regards -- Bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Posted Jul 23, 2002 6:56 UTC (Tue)
by DeletedUser2656 ((unknown), #2656)
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Posted Jul 23, 2002 9:52 UTC (Tue)
by DeletedUser1260 ((unknown), #1260)
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2.5 is for development. To deeply change the IDE layer to something readable, MD has to make changes. The same went before with the VM. The people actually doing things are always bashed by those that see they could have done but did not because of any reason (lack of time, laziness, low priority). I'm referring here to the (in)famous "cosmetic blowjob" mail. So, please Martin and Co (Jens, Bartlomiej, Vojtech), keep on working, you all have my trust.
Posted Jul 23, 2002 15:50 UTC (Tue)
by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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Posted Jul 25, 2002 19:58 UTC (Thu)
by Shamgar (guest, #1356)
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Posted Jul 23, 2002 9:06 UTC (Tue)
by geewhiz (guest, #2694)
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Posted Jul 23, 2002 10:38 UTC (Tue)
by slimy (guest, #2695)
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I really think Martin D has stuffed up the IDE layer badly since hijacking the code from Andre Hedrick. Restore Andre's code!!
Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
Dalecki maybe not perfect, but at least, he does not starts his mails with insults like the former maintainer. Also, I wonder why there are some many IDE bugs corrected in every pre-release of 2.4 if it is so perfect. And why it is code in a way that Linus qualifies of hard to maintain. And why I see today people still posting IDE problems about 2.4.Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
The problem seems to be that kernels keep coming out with the IDE code in between stable points. Probably the right thing to do would have been for Martin to keep his patches outside of the mainline kernel, offering them for testing, until he was satisfied with them, and then had them all merged at once. Doing active major development on something in the mainline kernel is just a pain, because you have to provide information on how to get from the latest kernel release to a stable point.Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
Except that Linus hates flag-day patches. cf the new kbuild keith owens built. If he is unwilling to put in a large patch for something like the build system, he'll be that much less willing to put in a huge patch for a major subsystem like IDE.
Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
No progress without some pain...
Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
Is that a quote from budda or eeyore?Warning: 2.5.27 and IDE do not play well together
Either way I agree, the code only gets better with testing.