Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965143AbVJUT6l (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:58:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965142AbVJUT6l (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:58:41 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:9949 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965138AbVJUT6k (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:58:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> References: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:58:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1129924714.2786.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 15:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. can you get a patch into -mm that default-on's them? That way the brave of heart get it automatic while those who play safe get them default-off. Expands your testingbase as well ;) - 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/