From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Ebbert Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:18:55 -0400 Message-ID: <46B3B7DF.2070302@redhat.com> References: <46B36D59.7060803@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42549 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763651AbXHCXTC (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:19:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46B36D59.7060803@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel , ide , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik On 08/03/2007 02:00 PM, 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 error handling output. This prevents the need to pore through > standards documents to figure out the meaning of the bits in these > registers when looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide > decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent > or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity. > This is really nice. Maybe make it configurable, though?