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    SubjectRe: [RFT] major libata update
    Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
    >
    > 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.
    >

    ok, thanks.

    Next -mm I'll suck up the libata changes, drop a pile of the hairier stuff
    and I'll ask each originator to test that patchset.
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