From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:16:10 +0100 Message-ID: <473C1C6A.40109@wpkg.org> References: <473AC34B.8000709@wpkg.org> <473B13D6.3080202@rtr.ca> <473B1617.4010102@wpkg.org> <473B1E39.8090800@rtr.ca> <473BBEDB.80000@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:59302 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756392AbXKOKQS (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:16:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <473BBEDB.80000@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Mark Lord , Linux IDE Tejun Heo schrieb: > 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. Note that I only sent this kernel message to this list because I couldn't understand it. So, I wasn't really helpful to you or Mark, but I actually took your time - to read and reply to this posting. And time is a scarce resource. My 3 cents. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org