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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:24:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46431D19.1070308@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4642E92D.5010509@gmail.com>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
>> This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers
>> (similar
>> to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to libata
...
> I'm not really convinced whether this is necessary.  The human readable
> form is also a bit cryptic and can get quite long.  So, mild NACK from me.

Same here, but I would like to see it in there under a CONFIG_DEBUG_LIBATA
kernel build option or something.  Kind of like the "FANCY_STATUS_DUMPS" flag
that drivers/ide used to have for this kind of stuff.

Cheers


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  2:18 [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding Robert Hancock
2007-05-10  9:43 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-10 13:24   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-05-10 16:40     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-10 21:33       ` Mark Lord
2007-05-10 21:42         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-10 23:32           ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-10 23:47             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-11  0:55               ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 23:29   ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-11 16:48     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-11 17:11       ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 23:10         ` Robert Hancock
2007-05-11 23:22           ` Jeff Garzik

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