From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Boot Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:01:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4359491B.5040603@bootc.net> References: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> <1129924714.2786.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from baldrick.bootc.net ([83.142.228.48]:33436 "EHLO baldrick.bootc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965152AbVJUUBh (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:01:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1129924714.2786.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 15:14 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Folks, >> >>Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge >>the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released. >> >>Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time to >>track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option that >>enables passthru. It will default to off. >> >>Other features that follow a similar pattern -- 98% there but needs a >>few final tweaks -- will be treated in the same way. > > > can you get a patch into -mm that default-on's them? That way the brave > of heart get it automatic while those who play safe get them > default-off. Expands your testingbase as well ;) > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ It's already there: arcadia ~ # uname -a Linux arcadia.lan 2.6.14-rc4-mm1 #2 Thu Oct 20 12:07:22 BST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux arcadia ~ # smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sda smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED :-) Chris -- Chris Boot bootc@bootc.net http://www.bootc.net/