From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:04:24 -0400 Message-ID: <435949C8.1030603@pobox.com> 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 mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:36023 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965157AbVJUUE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:04:27 -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: "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 ;) It currently defaults to on in -mm. I'll make sure that doesn't change... Jeff