Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:56:29 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. Message-ID: <199802240856.JAA01421@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199802240711.IAA07901@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Feb 24, 98 08:11:39 am"
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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 :(
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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