Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:27:38 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFT] major libata update
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Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
> 

ok, thanks.

Next -mm I'll suck up the libata changes, drop a pile of the hairier stuff
and I'll ask each originator to test that patchset.
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