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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:40:05 -0400
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Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Mark Lord wrote:
> 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.


The long term goal is to enable verbose output with a module option 
and/or sysfs knob, rather than a compile-time switch.

That's what ata_msg_xxx is for.  We just don't have the knob yet. 
Patches welcome...

	Jeff