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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] libata: Add support for TRIM
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:55:40 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:20:01PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Now we just need an implementation of ata_discard_fn()
> that issues the CFA ERASE SECTORS command instead of TRIM
> when speaking to a CFA device.

Yes, should be quite straightforward.  The only minor wrinkle I can see
is that CFA ERASE SECTORS only allows you to erase up to 256 sectors at a
time.  I think Dave's infrastructure for Discard lets us handle that ...

> Ah, life is good!

Isn't it though?