From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] laptop mode
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:17:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009141734.GB23545@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009140547.GD1232@suse.de>
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Red Hat just dropped this patch since it was suspected of data
> > corruption ;-(
> Eh? Care to explain a bit further? I'm not aware of any data corruption
> issues there, and it's certainly simple enough to easily audit.
3-4 cases of random data corruption, all using Quantum Fireball drives,
all with different IDE chipsets.
> And how kind of Red Hat to not inform me of any suspicion in this
> regard.
I want to get facts right before crying wolf.
Right now laptopmode/aam is just a suspect. There are still 1-2 other
small patches against IDE which could be the reason. We've dropped
laptopmode/aam for the time being to see if the folks seeing repeatable
corruption suddenly start behaving again.
Dave
--
Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200310091103.h99B31ug014566@hera.kernel.org>
2003-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH] laptop mode Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:05 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:17 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-10-09 14:26 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-11 11:49 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-11 13:59 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-12 22:45 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-10-14 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-10-09 14:11 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:21 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:28 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-17 19:42 ` Jan Rychter
2003-10-18 12:52 ` Jens Axboe
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