From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: ATA Write Error and Time-out Notification in User Space Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:48:04 +0000 Message-ID: <1136324884.22598.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:37578 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964952AbWACVrE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:47:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: John Treubig Cc: raw@dslr.net, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2006-01-03 at 13:27 -0600, John Treubig wrote: > I receive this as great news, only I don't know where the -mm tree is > located to see if I can get the patch or fix! Can you give me a few > pointers?! The -mm patches live on kernel.org in pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/ The patch you want is the one to drivers/ide/ide-io.c although be aware it will make non PCI ATA controllers crash on errors if applied. The "right" fix for this is probably to have a hwif->flush_data() function that defaults to try_to_flush_leftover_data() so that the knowledge involved is not hacked into the ide core but kept in the driver. Alan