Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965103AbVJUTOY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965106AbVJUTOY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:24 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:3511 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965102AbVJUTOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:23 -0400 Message-ID: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:18 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Merging ATA passthru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Folks, Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released. Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time to track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option that enables passthru. It will default to off. [...] Content analysis details: (0.5 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.5 TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL To: repeats address as real name Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 29 Folks, Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released. Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time to track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option that enables passthru. It will default to off. Other features that follow a similar pattern -- 98% there but needs a few final tweaks -- will be treated in the same way. This gets lesser-used features upstream where they can get the most testing, while defaulting them to off ensures that we won't perturb the known-working code. This also will help me, in that I won't have to maintain a bunch of parallel codebases. 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/