From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:41:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009114150.GA32716@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927153627.c931de2d.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:36:27PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> _GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive. It returns
> a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to restore
> it to boot up defaults.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
>
> ---
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5
> --- 2.6-mm.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ 2.6-mm/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
> ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
> ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
> JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
> + LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
> LP Printer support is enabled.
> LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
> M68k M68k architecture is enabled.
> @@ -1013,6 +1014,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
> emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
> is present.
>
> + noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
> + when set.
> + Format: <int>
this will confuse users that already think they can disable ACPI with "noacpi"
(instead of "acpi=off") and that already fight with "noapic". I have seen too
many confusions of this kind in bugreports.
Couldn't it be made "libata=noacpi" like we have "pci=noacpi" already?
--
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-09 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060927223441.205181000@localhost.localdomain>
2006-09-27 22:36 ` [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-27 22:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-09 11:41 ` Stefan Seyfried [this message]
2006-10-09 15:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-27 22:36 ` [patch 2/2] libata: _SDD support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-27 22:54 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] <20060928182211.076258000@localhost.localdomain>
2006-09-28 18:29 ` [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-28 18:51 ` Diego Calleja
2006-09-28 20:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-28 20:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 2:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-09-29 16:54 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-29 17:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-29 17:03 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-10-01 17:02 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-10-02 16:45 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-10-02 13:06 ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-28 18:29 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-28 18:30 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
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