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    SubjectRe: [RFT] major libata update
    Tejun Heo wrote:
    > Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >> Tejun Heo wrote:
    >>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >>>> Tomasz Torcz wrote:
    >>>>> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:00:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >>>>>> After much development and review, I merged a massive pile of libata
    >>>>>> patches from Tejun Heo and Albert Lee. This update contains the
    >>>>>> following major libata
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Any plans to merge http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Sil_m15w ? Or
    >>>>> maybe it's merged already?
    >>>>> Seagate firmware update seems to be available only for OEMs, so this
    >>>>> quirk is pretty helpful for end users.
    >>>>
    >>>> Its a question of staging. This still lives in the 'sii-m15w'
    >>>> branch of libata-dev.git, but if we throw too many _classes_ of
    >>>> changes into the same big lump, then it becomes much more difficult
    >>>> to discern which changes caused which failures.
    >>>>
    >>>> Since sata_sil has seen several changes, and since the sii-m15w
    >>>> problems are so difficult to diagnose properly, its easier to
    >>>> separate that out.
    >>>
    >>> Are you planning on merging sil_m15w workaround?
    >>
    >> Yes, but after 2.6.18.
    >
    > Cool.
    >
    >>> FYI, from the first time it was submitted (last summer) till 2.6.16,
    >>> it took very little effort to maintain it. The current big update
    >>> would necessitate some changes to it but I don't think it will be too
    >>> much work. My experience says m15w doesn't add too much maintenance
    >>> overhead.
    >>
    >> Its actively maintained in the 'sii-m15w' branch of libata-dev.git.
    >>
    >
    > I have been maintaining my own. :) BTW, with 2.6.16, m15_cxt has to
    > move from qc->private_data to ap->private_data.

    Okay, we've been talking about different things. You're talking about
    excluding non-affected drives from m15w blacklist while I'm talking
    about the handle-large-writes-by-qc-rewrite m15w workaround. The URL
    Tomasz Torcz wrote contains the workaround.

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    tejun
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