Re: [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling

Alan Cox
2009-06-01T13:05:57Z

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:59:29 -0400
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan, given your emphatic ack, is libata likely to follow the same
> model. Any chance we could have a single boot param that handled both

If the patches get in then it makes no sense not to implement them
identically in libata.

> drivers? I mean instead of having 2 module params.

No because the modules have different names so it will always be
ide_core.something and libata.something

Bartlomiej - thinking about this I question "nohpa=" because we get into
unneccessary negatives ide_core.hpa= is one less inversion to figure out.