From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Merging ATA passthru Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:45:04 -0400 Message-ID: <43596160.3080407@rtr.ca> References: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks, Jeff! > 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. With passthru, it would really be much better to just leave it enabled without any option. It's NOT on any main code path, and users/distros have to intentionally run "smartctl -d ata" or "hdparm /dev/sd*" to trigger any of it. So it is already "off", unless somebody wants to use it. This is different from the ATAPI code. But good to have it finally going upstream where it will get used. Cheers!