Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:01:31 +0100 | | From | Chris Boot <> | | Subject | Re: Merging ATA passthru |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 15:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Folks, >> >>Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge >>the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released. >> >>Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time to >>track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option that >>enables passthru. It will default to off. >> >>Other features that follow a similar pattern -- 98% there but needs a >>few final tweaks -- will be treated in the same way. > > > can you get a patch into -mm that default-on's them? That way the brave > of heart get it automatic while those who play safe get them > default-off. Expands your testingbase as well ;) > > > - > 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/
It's already there:
arcadia ~ # uname -a Linux arcadia.lan 2.6.14-rc4-mm1 #2 Thu Oct 20 12:07:22 BST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
arcadia ~ # smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sda smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
:-)
Chris
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