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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libata-dev-2.6:passthru] passthru fixes
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:39:06 -0400
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jeff Raubitschek wrote:
..
>> - passthru sense routines were refering to tf->command
>>   which is not read in tf_read, instead use drv_stat for
>>   status register.
>> - passthru sense passed back to user on ata_task_ioctl
>  
> ISTR there were some reported problems after applying this? 

Yes.  smartctl stops working when those patches are applied
(the buffer allocate failure patch was okay, though).

-ml