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Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:15:12 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd be a little concerned with that merge plan at this time - we have a lot
> of sata bug reports banked up and afaict a pretty low fixup rate.  Then
> again, these patches might fix some of those bugs...
> 
> I guess if we can get it all in early (which is only a couple of weeks
> away!) and you and Tejun will have time set aside to work on problems then
> OK.  But....


As you can see from the list just sent, the improved error handling will 
give libata much greater ability to diagnose "controller is being weird" 
type situations, which is a lot of what the relevant bug reports need.

After reviewing those bug reports, I see a couple oopses -- caused by 
BUG()-style code, and fixed in this update -- and one data corruption 
which persists on Sil 311x on rare motherboards.  The rest are either 
addressed with the improved error handling, or are ATAPI + VIA AFAICS.

	Jeff


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