Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:18:55 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3 |
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On 08/03/2007 02:00 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers > (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to > libata error handling output. This prevents the need to pore through > standards documents to figure out the meaning of the bits in these > registers when looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide > decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent > or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity. >
This is really nice.
Maybe make it configurable, though? - 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/
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