From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262059AbTJIORu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262224AbTJIORu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:17:50 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:4794 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262059AbTJIORt (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:17:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:17:36 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Jens Axboe Cc: Jeff Garzik , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] laptop mode Message-ID: <20031009141734.GB23545@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200310091103.h99B31ug014566@hera.kernel.org> <3F856A7E.2010607@pobox.com> <20031009140547.GD1232@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031009140547.GD1232@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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