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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata passthru: support PIO multi commands
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:09:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <466DE438.70108@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070611233917.4bd8c6d7@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> +	if (is_multi_taskfile(tf)) {
>> +		unsigned int multi_count = 1 << (cdb[1] >> 5);
>> +
>> +		/* compare the passed through multi_count
>> +		 * with the cached multi_count of libata
>> +		 */
>> +		if (multi_count != dev->multi_count)
>> +			ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_WARNING,
>> +				       "invalid multi_count %u ignored\n",
>> +				       multi_count);
>> +	}
> 
> What limits log spamming here ?

Intelligence of the user with privs?


> Also shouldn't we error this
> situation not proceed and hope that enough data was supplied not
> to leave us stuck half way through a command having made a nasty
> mess on disk ?

Is that English?  Can you be more specific and more clear?

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200706112200.l5BM0qFn005767@hera.kernel.org>
2007-06-11 22:39 ` libata passthru: support PIO multi commands Alan Cox
2007-06-12  0:09   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-12 10:16     ` Alan Cox
2007-06-12 15:18       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-12 16:05         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-13  2:57           ` Albert Lee
2007-06-13 18:40             ` Mark Lord
2007-06-13 18:55             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-13 18:55               ` Jeff Garzik

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