From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755043Ab0IXGWU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:22:20 -0400 Received: from mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net ([65.41.216.221]:49028 "EHLO greer.hardwarefreak.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753790Ab0IXGWS (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:22:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9C4399.6080602@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:22:17 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Kyle McMartin , Linux Kernel , IDE/ATA development list , linux-scsi Subject: Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent? References: <4C9BE5A8.1090002@teksavvy.com> <4C9BF624.7090906@hardwarefreak.com> <20100924013748.GH13116@bombadil.infradead.org> <4C9C1F95.5000509@hardwarefreak.com> <4C9C37B7.7060204@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: <4C9C37B7.7060204@teksavvy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord put forth on 9/24/2010 12:31 AM: > On 10-09-23 11:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Kyle McMartin put forth on 9/23/2010 8:37 PM: >>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:51:48PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>>> ~$ man hdparm >>>> >>> >>> kyle@dreadnought ~ $ hdparm >>> hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters - version v9.27, by Mark Lord. >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> [...] >> >> Please pardon me while I wipe this egg off my face. :) >> >> My apologies Mark. Please feel free to publicly flog me if you wish. > > Chuckle. :) > > But you did manage to prompt me to remove that obsolete warning > from the --security-* commands in hdparm. They are rather well tested > at this point in the game. > > hdparm-9.31 is now released, with some fixes to --security, > and with the nasty warnings mostly removed. > > Thanks! I guess it's a good thing when one can commit such a public blunder and still manage to be somewhat helpful? If so I don't feel 'quite' so sheepish now. :) NOTE to $self: when you subscribe to Linux dev lists, the odds are _much_ greater that people who actually write the software you use _are_ the people posting messages. Perform SENDER_IDENTITY_CHECK and SANITY_CHECK routines in the future before referring an author to his own documentation. ;) -- Stan