Re: Merging ATA passthru

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Oct 21 2005 - 14:58:54 EST


On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 15:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge
> the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released.
>
> Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time to
> track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option that
> enables passthru. It will default to off.
>
> Other features that follow a similar pattern -- 98% there but needs a
> few final tweaks -- will be treated in the same way.

can you get a patch into -mm that default-on's them? That way the brave
of heart get it automatic while those who play safe get them
default-off. Expands your testingbase as well ;)


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