From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFT] major libata update
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:27:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060515112738.5df30c19.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4468C530.6080409@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I'd be a little concerned with that merge plan at this time - we have a lot
> > of sata bug reports banked up and afaict a pretty low fixup rate. Then
> > again, these patches might fix some of those bugs...
> >
> > I guess if we can get it all in early (which is only a couple of weeks
> > away!) and you and Tejun will have time set aside to work on problems then
> > OK. But....
>
>
> As you can see from the list just sent, the improved error handling will
> give libata much greater ability to diagnose "controller is being weird"
> type situations, which is a lot of what the relevant bug reports need.
>
> After reviewing those bug reports, I see a couple oopses -- caused by
> BUG()-style code, and fixed in this update -- and one data corruption
> which persists on Sil 311x on rare motherboards. The rest are either
> addressed with the improved error handling, or are ATAPI + VIA AFAICS.
>
ok, thanks.
Next -mm I'll suck up the libata changes, drop a pile of the hairier stuff
and I'll ask each originator to test that patchset.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-15 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 17:00 [RFT] major libata update Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 17:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-15 18:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 19:06 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-05-15 20:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 19:33 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-15 22:52 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 18:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 18:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-05-15 18:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 17:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 18:29 ` Tomasz Torcz
2006-05-15 18:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:32 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 0:04 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-16 2:15 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 19:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:02 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:13 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 23:50 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 23:47 ` Wakko Warner
2006-05-15 23:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15 23:30 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-15 23:36 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-15 23:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 0:08 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 3:36 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 3:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 4:33 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 14:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 15:25 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-05-17 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 23:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-18 1:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-17 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-16 15:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 3:55 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-16 4:37 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-05-16 11:36 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-16 14:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 15:24 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-16 18:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-16 21:41 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-16 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 23:11 ` Eric D. Mudama
2006-05-17 2:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-16 23:23 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 2:09 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-16 23:44 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-16 23:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 0:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 0:29 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 1:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 1:27 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 2:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 3:05 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-22 7:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-23 13:59 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 0:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 0:50 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 0:57 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 2:22 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-17 1:37 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 3:57 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-17 4:44 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 11:30 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-17 20:45 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-17 21:01 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-17 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 21:50 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 21:56 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-17 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 22:03 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-17 22:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-18 3:33 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-18 3:26 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-18 11:58 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-18 12:52 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-18 13:22 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-18 13:37 ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-17 1:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 1:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-17 2:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-05-16 23:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-16 23:53 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 2:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-17 4:49 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 4:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-17 5:14 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-17 6:35 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-18 11:24 ` Albert Lee
2006-05-18 11:33 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-19 10:37 ` Albert Lee
2006-05-19 11:03 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-22 3:51 ` [PATCH 1/1] libata: use polling pio for identify device Albert Lee
2006-05-22 6:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-23 2:27 ` Albert Lee
2006-05-18 23:07 ` [RFT] major libata update Andrew Morton
2006-05-19 1:14 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-19 2:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-19 2:16 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-22 7:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-21 23:51 ` Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2006-05-22 2:42 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-22 3:42 ` Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2006-05-22 6:23 ` Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
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2006-05-16 5:33 ` Robert Hancock
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2006-05-17 7:35 Matthieu CASTET
2006-05-18 0:36 Brown, Len
2006-05-18 0:36 ` Brown, Len
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