From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:21:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20051022012130.GD28212@tuxdriver.com> References: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:45:04PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > With passthru, it would really be much better to just leave it enabled > without any option. It's NOT on any main code path, and users/distros > have to intentionally run "smartctl -d ata" or "hdparm /dev/sd*" to > trigger any of it. Actually, that's a good point. I'm forced to concur with my colleague... :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com