[Merging ATA passthru] on integrating SMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver

[thomas schorpp <t.schorpp@gmx.de>]

hi,

i'll try integrating SMART/ATA-Security in usb-storage driver for usb2
ide disks.

other people working on it yet? ive read something on SMART efforts for
SATA.

i think of using the passthrough code (libata?) or module in
usb-storage.ko like the SATA driver for ATA-Security.

comments?

thx
y
tom


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Merging ATA passthru
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:18 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
CC: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>


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.

This gets lesser-used features upstream where they can get the most
testing, while defaulting them to off ensures that we won't perturb the
known-working code.

This also will help me, in that I won't have to maintain a bunch of
parallel codebases.

	Jeff



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