Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:56:10 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, jeff@garzik.org,
       linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it
 means."
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> I didn't know any of that.  The changelog might have been kinda fun, but
> given that it failed to tell us that the patch fixes data-corruption
> errors, the changelog was excrutiatingly bad.

I have no reason/evidence to believe it fixes data corruption errors of
any kind. For the specific combinations of device it should simply avoid
a long pause, complaints and a switch to lower speeds.

The ATA disk case with serverworks (which is a potential corruptor) was
always correctly handled.
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