From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add warning about possible HPA compatibility issue
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:36:17 +0200
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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

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.