Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote the following on 09/10/2004 11:21 PM :

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I see it's not really a cutting-edge design (2002). Apparently nobody 
seemed to care about Linux IDE performance before :-|
   

Yep. :/  Lionel, can I push this fix upstream?
 

Please do.

In fact I think I'm only a speed bumper here. There's so little work to 
do on the sis5513 driver now that I don't follow IDE work closely 
anymore and must refresh my memories even for such simple patches. I 
believe there are people around more fit than me for sis5513 maintenance.
With SATA, sis5513.c will soon be considered legacy code. I don't think 
a dedicated maintainer is usefull anymore, seems to me it would be 
better handled by someone with a broader view of IDE chipsets than me.

Any volunteeer ?

Lionel.