From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elias Oltmanns Subject: Disk shock protection in GNU/Linux Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:28:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87d4j2n3dn.fsf@denkblock.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from nebensachen.de ([195.34.83.29]:58887 "EHLO mail.nebensachen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752610AbYIQQ27 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:28:59 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, thanks to a lot of help from Bart and Tejun, who kept reviewing my patches suggested various improvements / fixes, I am now about to post the updated patch series. As far as I'm aware, all issues raised have been addressed and I'm hoping that this series is now fit to be merged. I gather that Bart is prepared queue the ide part of the series (patch #3) once the first two patches have been merged. Jeff, assuming that Tejun will ACK patch #2, can you accept those patches (#1 and #2) and queue them up for 2.6.28? Perhaps, Bart can take care of patch #4 along with the one that actually touches the ide subsystem. The short summary of the patch series is the same as before (all patches apply to next-20080916): 1. This is a small patch to ata.h in order to provide a simple check for support of the unload feature as indicated in a device's ID. 2. Here disk head unloading is implemented in the libata subsystem. 3. The same for ide. 4. A little bit of documentation. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Elias