Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding

[Alan Cox]

> Scrollback rarely works as planned, for me.  Overall, a balance must be 
> found.
> 
> More information is more helpful.  But.
> 
> There are downsides to spewing everything possible, upon error.  You 
> cause logging to the possibly problematic disk, you push older messages 
> out of the printk ring buffer, etc., etc.

Get yourself a Voodoo5 or similar card cheap off ebay. The firmware on
most of them doesn't clear the top 30MB of RAM on a reboot/PCI reset
which makes them excellent debug buffers providing you empty the buffer
before you run the X server.

Alan
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