Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>> Is there an online Kernelish-English dictionary anywhere? ;)
>> ..
>>
>> Unfortunately not.
>>
>> At some point, we *really* need to convice {Tejun,Jeff} that libata
>> messages should be simpler, fewer, and more human readable by default,
>> with perhaps a sysfs flag to re-enable the {Tejun,Jeff}-speak versions.
> 
> Ummm... Okay.  That might have something to do with me not being a
> native speaker.  :-)
> 
> I agree that the current message looks too scary and detailed.  Yeah,
> essages for recovered errors can be shorter and sweeter.  Those messages
> are pretty helpful to developers tho.  Always having duplicate SCSI
> messages don't help either.
> 
> Thanks.  I'm putting it on the todo list but I have to admit it is of
> low priority ATM.
..

Nothing bad intended by that.. I can read the current messages just fine :)
though there do seem to be a *lot* of them.

But that is good for libata, in it's current level of immaturity and rapid
development.  In a release or three, once things settle down a bit,
we'll likely feel more pressure to make things understandable by others.

Cheers