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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: (STA.functional && !STA.present)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:49:19 -0500
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To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>, castet.matthieu@free.fr
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Matthieu,
what good things happen if instead of using bjorn's current
tweak to simply set STA.present we use your patch here
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3358
which doesn't re-write the bits?

Bjorn, will the case that provoked your change still work?

it is interesting now to google for:
"functional but not present; setting present"
it comes up on more than Tiger systems...

thanks,
-Len