From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 00:57:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00315 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00307 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01421; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:56:29 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199802240856.JAA01421@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. In-Reply-To: <199802240711.IAA07901@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Feb 24, 98 08:11:39 am" To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:56:29 +0100 (MET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote: > This said, i _DON'T_ like to have this patch NOW in the -current > tree because our atapi subsystem, as i mentioned far too many times, > does not have proper timeout handling, and implementing a generic > ATAPI ioctl, together with broken firmware in the atapi peripherals, > opens the door to all sort of deadlocks on the corresponding IDE > bus. Since many people might have another IDE disk on the same bus, > they risk losing their data which is undesirable... I'm working on the atapi system right now, I have semilar problems (and new ones :) ) with the atapi tape driver. I'd like to do a rewrite, but I simply doesn't have the time for that now, so I'll try to fix what we have. I'm well aware of the potential hangs we can suffer :( -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message