Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759524AbXKNSqV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754819AbXKNSqM (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:12 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4554 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754669AbXKNSqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:11 -0500 Message-ID: <473B4271.3000201@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:09 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allen Martin Cc: Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , Riki Oktarianto , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards References: <20071109020235.GA2031@ceren><20071109023129.GA25581@havoc.gtf.org><4733D421.7000505@rtr.ca><20071109034622.GB25581@havoc.gtf.org><20071109120425.543971bf@the-village.bc.nu><47351FE1.4000001@garzik.org><473600B6.5070103@garzik.org> <20071113152727.45b71939@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 17 Allen Martin wrote: .. > Errata for which there is an SBIOS workaround are generally only > released to BIOS vendors and under NDA. If Linux users were impacted by > such a bug we would most likely release a patch, but a much more likely .. All of that silly secrecy harms your company and your customers. You really should find a way to make the full information available to all O/S providers. In the case of Linux, this costs nothing but a willingness on your part. - 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/