Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965191AbVJVBWS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:22:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751300AbVJVBWS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:22:18 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([24.172.12.4]:5125 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbVJVBWQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:22:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:21:33 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru Message-ID: <20051022012130.GD28212@tuxdriver.com> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Lord , Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel References: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 19 On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:45:04PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > 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. Actually, that's a good point. I'm forced to concur with my colleague... :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - 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/