From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:18:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B3B7DF.2070302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B36D59.7060803@shaw.ca>
On 08/03/2007 02:00 PM, Robert Hancock wrote:
> This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers
> (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to
> libata error handling output. This prevents the need to pore through
> standards documents to figure out the meaning of the bits in these
> registers when looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide
> decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent
> or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity.
>
This is really nice.
Maybe make it configurable, though?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 18:00 [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3 Robert Hancock
2007-08-03 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-03 23:18 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-10-02 15:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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