From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RESPIN: libata: add atapi_passthru=1 parameter
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:17:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459BF33A.8050003@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701030124.19568.liml@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:01, Mark Lord wrote:
..
>> Add a boot/module parameter for libata to force the ATA_16
>> SCSI opcode to not be interpreted as a standards-compliant
>> ATA passthrough mechanism when used on an ATAPI device
>> -- instead, it gets passed directly to the ATAPI device.
..
> +int atapi_passthru = 0;
> +module_param(atapi_passthru, int, 0444);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(atapi_passthru, "Enable passthru of SCSI opcode 0x85 to ATAPI devices");
Oh, and if anyone can come up with a less-sucky name for this variable,
then PLEASE do so! I don't like it, but had trouble inventing anything
better that didn't harken back to my (long ago) COBOL days.. ;)
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-03 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-03 0:39 [PATCH] libata: add support for ATA_16 commands to ATAPI devices Mark Lord
2007-01-03 0:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-01-03 0:50 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2007-01-03 1:07 ` Alan
2007-01-03 1:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-03 5:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-01-03 11:34 ` Alan
2007-01-03 14:18 ` Mark Lord
2007-01-03 5:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-01-03 6:01 ` [PATCH] libata: add atapi_passthru=1 parameter Mark Lord
2007-01-03 6:24 ` [PATCH] RESPIN: " Mark Lord
2007-01-03 18:17 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-01-20 0:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-26 2:39 ` Mark Lord
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