The fifth and sixth patch, cleanup-sht and cleanup-ops, can be verified not to change the final sht and ops by printing out all entries and comparing the values before and after. 1. Get the following git branch. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=cleanup-sht-ops-verify-before git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git cleanup-sht-ops-verify-before Build the kernel with the libata modules to verify and run the following command. # insmod libata.ko; for i in $(ls *.ko | sort | grep -v libata.ko); do insmod $i; done; dmesg -c | grep -E 'SHT|OPS' | sed -r 's/^\[[ \.0-9]*\] (.*)$/\1/' | sort > ~/out.before If you need some libata modules built-in for rootfs, it's okay too. It will give the same result. 2. Get the following git branch. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=cleanup-sht-ops-verify-after git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git cleanup-sht-ops-verify-after # insmod libata.ko; for i in $(ls *.ko | sort | grep -v libata.ko); do insmod $i; done; dmesg -c | grep -E 'SHT|OPS' | sed -r 's/^\[[ \.0-9]*\] (.*)$/\1/' | sort > ~/out.after 3. Use your favorite diff program to compare out.before and out.after. Graphical ones which show in-line differences will work best. 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
