From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
kyle@canonical.com
Subject: Re: HPA patches
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:56:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070323205652.GA9965@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070323191321.5d00887a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> +static int ata_ignore_hpa = 0;
> +module_param_named(ignore_hpa, ata_ignore_hpa, int, 0644);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_hpa, "Ignore HPA (0=off 1=on)");
I'm not sure I like the language here. "Ignore HPA" appears to mean
"Explicitly disable the HPA", which I guess is one interpretation of
"ignore" - however, naively I'd expect "Ignore HPA" to mean "Don't touch
the HPA" with the result that it would remain inaccessible to userspace.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-23 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 19:13 HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-23 18:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 19:22 ` David Miller
2007-03-23 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 21:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 22:47 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-13 3:16 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-04-13 10:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:56 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-03-27 5:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-26 20:45 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-03-28 0:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 0:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 1:16 ` ata_piix can't drive Mac hardware properly Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 4:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 9:57 ` HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-28 20:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-28 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:30 ` Kyle McMartin
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20070323205652.GA9965@srcf.ucam.org \
--to=mjg59@srcf.ucam.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=kyle@canonical.com \
--cc=linux-ide@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).