From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #NEXT] libata: add command name parsing for error output
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:04:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5FF863.9070105@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5D425B.4080300@gmail.com>
Robert Hancock wrote:
> This patch improve libata's output for error/notification messages to allow easier
> comprehension and debugging:
>
> When ATAPI commands issued through the SCSI layer fail, use SCSI functions
> to print the CDB in human-readable form instead of just dumping out the CDB
> in hex.
>
> Print out the name of the failed command (as defined by the ATA specification)
> in error handling output along with the raw register contents.
>
> When reporting status of ACPI taskfile commands executed on resume, also output
> the names of the commands being executed (or not) in readable form.
>
> Since the extra data for printing command names increases kernel size slightly,
> a config option has been added to allow disabling command name output
> (as well as some of the error register parsing) for those highly sensitive to
> kernel text size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 2:43 [PATCH #NEXT] libata: add command name parsing for error output Robert Hancock
2009-07-17 4:04 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-07-29 1:19 ` Jeff Garzik
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