From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVusw-000665-3d for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:38:46 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVusu-00065z-Qy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:38:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVust-00065n-O4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:38:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34910 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVust-00065g-L0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:38:43 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53979) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVust-0001cN-9n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:38:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LVunh-0006AP-4Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:33:21 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVusP-0001ph-DX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:38:13 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:38:13 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090207213813.GF6343@thorin> References: <497B9D35.5010703@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <497B9D35.5010703@t-online.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] hdparm.mod - get/set ATA disk parameters X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:38:45 -0000 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:59:01PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > This patch adds a command which allows to change a few (S)ATA drive > settings. It relies on a new pass-through function in ata.mod. Is this function going to be used for "normal" use of ata? Note that ata.mod should be as small as possible, since coreboot users usually want to include it the GRUB that is installed to flash. Would it make sense to put the function elsewhere? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."