Re: ATA Write Error and Time-out Notification in User Space

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2006-01-03 at 13:27 -0600, John Treubig wrote:
> I receive this as great news, only I don't know where the -mm tree is 
> located to see if I can get the patch or fix!  Can you give me a few 
> pointers?!

The -mm patches live on kernel.org in pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/

The patch you want is the one to drivers/ide/ide-io.c although be aware
it will make non PCI ATA controllers crash on errors if applied. The
"right" fix for this is probably to have a hwif->flush_data() function
that defaults to try_to_flush_leftover_data() so that the knowledge
involved is not hacked into the ide core but kept in the driver.


Alan

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