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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
	bl0 <bl0-052@playker.info>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: sata_sil data corruption, possible workarounds
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:58:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F4475F.9000509@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F0199D.4090502@teksavvy.com>

On 01/11/2013 08:54 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 13-01-11 08:53 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 13-01-09 02:17 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>
>>> Having a module option is easy and can be helpful for the very rare
>>> cases where the admin is aware of the issue, but, in general, it
>>> doesn't really help that much.
>>
>> How about a sysfs attribute, rather than a boot option?
>
> NAK that idea.. a boot-time module flag is the best way.

Module options appear in sysfs anyway.

If the issue continues to be seen, a knob to enable an ugly solution is 
better than nothing, from the user's perspective.

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-15  8:02 sata_sil data corruption, possible workarounds bl0
2012-12-15 21:55 ` Robert Hancock
2012-12-16 12:21   ` bl0
2012-12-17  5:44     ` Robert Hancock
2012-12-18 15:23       ` bl0
2012-12-19  3:44         ` Robert Hancock
2012-12-20  8:54           ` bl0
2013-01-07  4:11             ` Robert Hancock
2013-01-08 12:25               ` bl0
2012-12-24 14:37         ` bl0
2013-01-09  4:48           ` Robert Hancock
2013-01-09 19:17             ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-11 10:28               ` bl0
2013-01-11 13:53               ` Mark Lord
2013-01-11 13:54                 ` Mark Lord
2013-01-14 17:58                   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-01-15  7:44                     ` bl0

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