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From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:41:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009114150.GA32716@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927153627.c931de2d.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:36:27PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> _GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive.  It returns
> a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to restore
> it to boot up defaults.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
> 
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    5 
 
> --- 2.6-mm.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ 2.6-mm/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
>  	ISAPNP	ISA PnP code is enabled.
>  	ISDN	Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
>  	JOY	Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
> +	LIBATA  Libata driver is enabled
>  	LP	Printer support is enabled.
>  	LOOP	Loopback device support is enabled.
>  	M68k	M68k architecture is enabled.
> @@ -1013,6 +1014,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  			emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
>  			is present.
>  
> +	noacpi		[LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
> +			when set.
> +			Format: <int>

this will confuse users that already think they can disable ACPI with "noacpi"
(instead of "acpi=off") and that already fight with "noapic". I have seen too
many confusions of this kind in bugreports.

Couldn't it be made "libata=noacpi" like we have "pci=noacpi" already?
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |              "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg  | "Well, surrounding them's out." 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-09 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060927223441.205181000@localhost.localdomain>
2006-09-27 22:36 ` [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-27 22:49   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-09 11:41   ` Stefan Seyfried [this message]
2006-10-09 15:10     ` Randy Dunlap
2006-09-27 22:36 ` [patch 2/2] libata: _SDD support Kristen Carlson Accardi
2006-09-27 22:54   ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <20060928182211.076258000@localhost.localdomain>
2006-09-28 18:30 ` [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support Kristen Carlson Accardi
     [not found] ` <20060928112901.62ee8eba.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
     [not found]   ` <20060929020707.GA22082@srcf.ucam.org>
2006-09-29 17:03     ` Kristen Carlson Accardi

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