From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:00:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906020000.57884.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601140651.5261ecbb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Monday 01 June 2009 15:06:51 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:59:29 -0400
> Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > drivers? I mean instead of having 2 module params.
>
> No because the modules have different names so it will always be
> ide_core.something and libata.something
Moreover "nohpa" is a per-device setting while "ignore_hpa" is a global one.
> Bartlomiej - thinking about this I question "nohpa=" because we get into
> unneccessary negatives ide_core.hpa= is one less inversion to figure out.
Actually in case of "nohpa" there are no unnecessary negatives because it
is really meant for disabling Host Protected Area only and sticking with
the current name allows us to use IDE's module parameters infrastructure
without adding some extra code/complexity.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 14:39 [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] partitions: warn about the partition exceeding device capacity Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] partitions: add ->set_capacity block device method Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-06 8:42 ` Al Viro
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-01 21:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-02 18:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-06-05 18:38 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-01 21:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-02 19:12 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-05-31 15:24 ` [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling Andries E. Brouwer
2009-05-31 15:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-01 13:02 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-05-31 16:36 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 20:04 ` Frans Pop
2009-05-31 22:50 ` Andries E. Brouwer
2009-06-01 12:59 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-06-01 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 22:00 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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