Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > I'd be a little concerned with that merge plan at this time - we have a lot > > of sata bug reports banked up and afaict a pretty low fixup rate. Then > > again, these patches might fix some of those bugs... > > > > I guess if we can get it all in early (which is only a couple of weeks > > away!) and you and Tejun will have time set aside to work on problems then > > OK. But.... > > > As you can see from the list just sent, the improved error handling will > give libata much greater ability to diagnose "controller is being weird" > type situations, which is a lot of what the relevant bug reports need. > > After reviewing those bug reports, I see a couple oopses -- caused by > BUG()-style code, and fixed in this update -- and one data corruption > which persists on Sil 311x on rare motherboards. The rest are either > addressed with the improved error handling, or are ATAPI + VIA AFAICS. > ok, thanks. Next -mm I'll suck up the libata changes, drop a pile of the hairier stuff and I'll ask each originator to test that patchset. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
