From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ide: add "ignore_hpa" module parameter
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:15:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905261915.47212.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090526135343.5bcaa92b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 14:53:43 Alan Cox wrote:
> > Please note that no fancy sysfs support was needed to prevent the problem:
> > both stacks (ide & libata) support HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl which can be used
> > to execute commands needed to retrieve/change HPA setting.
>
> Wrong. You need sysfs support because you may not be able to retrieve the
> HPA settings after the drive has removed them. You also need a trigger of
All information was there (kernel logs).
Moreover the default in libata is to not remove HPA settings.
I don't recommend parsing kernels logs in search of such information but
you're are stretching the reality too far to match with your arguments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-26 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-25 21:44 [PATCH 1/3] ide: add "ignore_hpa" module parameter Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-25 22:27 ` Frans Pop
2009-05-25 22:36 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-25 23:06 ` Frans Pop
2009-05-26 12:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-26 12:53 ` Frans Pop
2009-05-26 13:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-26 18:08 ` Andries E. Brouwer
2009-05-27 9:49 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-26 17:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-26 23:49 ` Robert Hancock
2009-05-26 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-26 17:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-05-27 10:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-27 11:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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