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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] laptop mode
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:17:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009141734.GB23545@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009140547.GD1232@suse.de>

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:

 > > Red Hat just dropped this patch since it was suspected of data 
 > > corruption ;-(
 > Eh? Care to explain a bit further? I'm not aware of any data corruption
 > issues there, and it's certainly simple enough to easily audit.

3-4 cases of random data corruption, all using Quantum Fireball drives,
all with different IDE chipsets.

 > And how kind of Red Hat to not inform me of any suspicion in this
 > regard.

I want to get facts right before crying wolf.
Right now laptopmode/aam is just a suspect. There are still 1-2 other
small patches against IDE which could be the reason.  We've dropped
laptopmode/aam for the time being to see if the folks seeing repeatable
corruption suddenly start behaving again.

		Dave

-- 
 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200310091103.h99B31ug014566@hera.kernel.org>
2003-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH] laptop mode Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:05   ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:17     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-10-09 14:26       ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-11 11:49         ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-11 13:59           ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-12 22:45             ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-10-14 17:50               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:09   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-10-09 14:11     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:18       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:21         ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:28       ` Dave Jones
2003-10-17 19:42       ` Jan Rychter
2003-10-18 12:52         ` Jens Axboe

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