Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263004AbUDEBe2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263006AbUDEBe2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:34:28 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:26295 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263004AbUDEBeZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:34:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4070B794.2070907@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:34:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dieter Stueken CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata transport attributes References: <40702492.8050603@conterra.de> In-Reply-To: <40702492.8050603@conterra.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 30 Dieter Stueken wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Since libata is leaving SCSI in 2.7, I would rather not add >> superfluous stuff like this at all. >> Further, you can already retrieve the information you export with >> _zero_ new code. > > > does this include informations about the drives SMART status, too? No. SMART would not be appropriate for a transport attribute either. > The smartmotools (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) won't work > with libata until some "passthrough" command gets implemented :-( > Will this be available soon (or even working now), or do I have to > wait until 2.7? Soon. Jeff - 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/