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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

  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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