From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
kyle@canonical.com
Subject: Re: HPA patches
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:00:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4608A4F4.1010208@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070323205652.GA9965@srcf.ucam.org>
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> +static int ata_ignore_hpa = 0;
>> +module_param_named(ignore_hpa, ata_ignore_hpa, int, 0644);
>> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_hpa, "Ignore HPA (0=off 1=on)");
>
> I'm not sure I like the language here. "Ignore HPA" appears to mean
> "Explicitly disable the HPA", which I guess is one interpretation of
> "ignore" - however, naively I'd expect "Ignore HPA" to mean "Don't touch
> the HPA" with the result that it would remain inaccessible to userspace.
"ignore" sounds more appropriate to me.
We're not just making it inaccessible, we are actively ignoring all
traces of its existence everywhere, when that setting is enabled.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 19:13 HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-23 18:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 19:22 ` David Miller
2007-03-23 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 21:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 22:47 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-13 3:16 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-04-13 10:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-23 20:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-27 5:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-03-26 20:45 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-03-28 0:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 0:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 1:16 ` ata_piix can't drive Mac hardware properly Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 4:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 9:57 ` HPA patches Alan Cox
2007-03-28 20:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-28 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-28 21:30 ` Kyle McMartin
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