Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965182AbVJUWEO (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:04:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965181AbVJUWEO (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:04:14 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:33720 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965178AbVJUWEO (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:04:14 -0400 Message-ID: <435965D5.8010600@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:04:05 -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: Mark Lord CC: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru References: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 38 Mark Lord wrote: > 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. > > > Thanks, Jeff! > >> 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. > > > With passthru, it would really be much better to just leave it enabled > without any option. It's NOT on any main code path, and users/distros > have to intentionally run "smartctl -d ata" or "hdparm /dev/sd*" to > trigger any of it. > > So it is already "off", unless somebody wants to use it. Not really true, as people constantly try (and fail) to use hdparm with their SATA disks today. Anyway, I have this weird thing about not turning on something by default, when I know has it problems ;-) 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/