From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Jacob <fun2program8@yahoo.com>,
Christopher Hogan <chris.c.hogan@gmail.com>,
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add warning about possible HPA compatibility issue
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:36:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905260036.17718.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090525232014.7b6dd7bd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 00:20:14 Alan Cox wrote:
> > +static inline void ata_hpa_warn(unsigned long long first_sector,
> > + unsigned long long last_sector)
> > +{
> > + printk(KERN_WARNING "*** possible compatibility issue:\n"
> > + "*** sectors %llu-%llu may be inaccessible\n"
> > + "*** if Host Protected Area is used for filesystem data\n"
> > + "*** (please refer to \"ignore_hpa\" module parameter)\n",
> > + first_sector, last_sector);
> > +}
>
> NAK - this is extremely misleading and will just randomly terrify users,
> who may then set the paramater and corrupt things like BIOS save areas.
Please propose better description.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-25 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-25 21:48 [PATCH] libata: add warning about possible HPA compatibility issue Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-25 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-25 22:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-05-25 22:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-25 23:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-25 23:16 ` Alan Cox
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