Alan Cox wrote: >> Private command type / transfer length filtering in sata_promise, >> pata_it821x and pata_pdc2027x are removed as core layer filtering is >> more conservative. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > > NAK - as before > > This is the wrong way to do stuff. Stop penalizing the 99.99% of users > with perfectly sane hardware. In addition I note that the whitelist for > drives would rapidly be thousands of entries long and unmanagable. Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. I just don't think that penalty is worth considering and definitely don't think whitelist is necessary at all. > Blacklist the problem drives - there aren't that many as far as I can see > from Fedora. Also don't confuse this with the pata_ali ATAPI problems > which are most of the ones I do find. If we're gonna take that road, let's lift 16 byte alignment check during -rc cycles. It's something which masks the problem half way. It only hinders the debugging process. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
