[hal-info patch] Reintroduce GCC-4240N CD-ROM polling blacklisting

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:50:06AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Sjoerd Simons [2008-03-21 15:09 +0100]:
> > This thread seems to have died out without good conclusion. Iirc the reason
> > of the problem isn't strictly that the cdrom drive is a slave, but that the
> > harddisk and the cdrom drive are on the same bus. Meaning that because of
> > the issue in the cd drive, the harddisk is prevented from communicating
> > over the ide bus for some time everytime we poll, hence it gets really
> > slow.

> I have had plenty of computers with a HD and a CD-ROM drive on the
> same IDE bus (CD-ROM usually was slave, but I also had it the other
> way around). So it does seem to be confined to just this particular
> model, for some weird reason.

iirc it has something to do with the powermanagement in this particular model,
but i can't remember the details
> 
> > If there are no complaints, i'll commit a patch for this somewhere next week..
> 
> The original patch still seems to work, and we still ship it. So can
> we get it upstream again, too?

Yeah forgot about it, pushed now, thanks :)

  Sjoerd
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