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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:11:56 -0500
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
..
>> I really hate having a _global_ variable called "fua". That's just bad 
>> taste. I would suggest calling it "atapi_forced_unit_attention_enabled"

Heh heh..
It's actually short for "Force Unit Access",
though oddly enough I don't think the patch
mentions that in the MODULE_PARM_DESC().

> Here's the cleaner namespace version...

David, do you want to ack this one for us?

Cheers