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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-core: Don't have screaming fits over DF/ERR combinations
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:04:20 -0400
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Some hardware seems to get this wrong in a non-harmful way, and there are
> some devices that seem to do it deliberately for various reasons.
> 
> Just take it as a device error not a catastrophic state machine
> explosion. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

applied to #for-testing branch, let me know when you think its suitable 
for upstream