Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 08/03/2007 02:00 PM, Robert Hancock wrote:
> This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers
> (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to
> libata error handling output.  This prevents the need to pore through
> standards documents to figure out the meaning of the bits in these
> registers when looking at error reports.  Some bits that drivers/ide
> decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent
> or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity.
> 

This is really nice.

Maybe make it configurable, though?
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