Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932144AbWB1K23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:28:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932156AbWB1K23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:28:29 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:9384 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932144AbWB1K22 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:28:28 -0500 Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 From: Alan Cox To: Mark Lord Cc: Tejun Heo , David Greaves , Mark Lord , Jeff Garzik , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de, Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <4403CEA9.4080603@rtr.ca> References: <43F2050B.8020006@dgreaves.com> <200602141300.37118.lkml@rtr.ca> <440040B4.8030808@dgreaves.com> <440083B4.3030307@rtr.ca> <4400A1BF.7020109@rtr.ca> <4400B439.8050202@dgreaves.com> <4401122A.3010908@rtr.ca> <44017B4B.3030900@dgreaves.com> <4401B560.40702@rtr.ca> <4403704E.4090109@rtr.ca> <4403A84C.6010804@gmail.com> <4403CEA9.4080603@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:32:44 +0000 Message-Id: <1141122764.3089.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 15 On Llu, 2006-02-27 at 23:16 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Or maybe a whitelist instead, since nearly all existing hardware > pre-dates FUA commands. For controllers just add it as a host flag and it can be handled the same way as LBA48 is right now. It may also be some hosts can issue FUA with a bit of bandaging (state machine resets/pio etc) Alan - 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/