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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	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 17:49:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1C7FF5.4060205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905261453.22428.elendil@planet.nl>

Frans Pop wrote:
>> Moreover the (much needed) work from Tejun doesn't help a tiny bit in
>> case of people migrating their *working* setups from IDE to libata
> 
> From what I've seen now that seems the most important case that needs 
> supporting, as well as the case where a working setup would migrate from 
> IDE with old HPA default to IDE with new HPA default.
> 
> Naive thought: wouldn't it be possible to check whether a partition 
> overlaps the HPA boundary and warn or even bug out in that case?

It does, you get a warning about the partition exceeding device 
capacity. Easy to miss that, however.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-26 23:49 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 [this message]
2009-05-26 12:53         ` Alan Cox
2009-05-26 17:15           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-27 10:38             ` Alan Cox
2009-05-27 11:41               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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