Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 14:15:12 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFT] major libata update |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd be a little concerned with that merge plan at this time - we have a lot > of sata bug reports banked up and afaict a pretty low fixup rate. Then > again, these patches might fix some of those bugs... > > I guess if we can get it all in early (which is only a couple of weeks > away!) and you and Tejun will have time set aside to work on problems then > OK. But....
As you can see from the list just sent, the improved error handling will give libata much greater ability to diagnose "controller is being weird" type situations, which is a lot of what the relevant bug reports need.
After reviewing those bug reports, I see a couple oopses -- caused by BUG()-style code, and fixed in this update -- and one data corruption which persists on Sil 311x on rare motherboards. The rest are either addressed with the improved error handling, or are ATAPI + VIA AFAICS.
Jeff
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