From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, alan@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:30:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304173058.7679b7c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803050234.40594.bzolnier@gmail.com>
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:34:40 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2008, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> >
> > When masking mask out the modes that are unsupported not the ones that are
> > supported. This makes life happier.
> >
>
> Jeff,
>
> Could we get this merged ASAP (it was first posted on 26th February)?
>
> This patch fixes data corruption for libata PATA ServerWorks and HPT drivers.
>
> [ IDE users are already leaving happy life since they are not affected
> (modes masking has always worked correctly in the original drivers)...
>
> Can we make life happy also for libata PATA users? :) ]
>
(edited to undo top-posting damage)
I didn't know any of that. The changelog might have been kinda fun, but
given that it failed to tell us that the patch fixes data-corruption
errors, the changelog was excrutiatingly bad.
Do we need this fix in 2.6.24.x as well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200803042316.m24NGI7k002489@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-05 1:34 ` [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-05 1:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-05 1:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-05 11:56 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-05 13:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-05 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-05 16:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-05 16:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-05 16:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-05 16:55 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-05 17:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-05 18:33 ` Zan Lynx
2008-03-06 1:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-06 11:13 ` Ville Syrjälä
2008-03-06 14:58 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-06 15:00 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-06 22:10 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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