On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:34:40 +0100 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 March 2008, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > When masking mask out the modes that are unsupported not the ones that are > > > supported. This makes life happier. > > > > > > > Jeff, > > > > Could we get this merged ASAP (it was first posted on 26th February)? > > > > This patch fixes data corruption for libata PATA ServerWorks and HPT drivers. > > > > [ IDE users are already leaving happy life since they are not affected > > (modes masking has always worked correctly in the original drivers)... > > > > Can we make life happy also for libata PATA users? :) ] > > > > (edited to undo top-posting damage) > > I didn't know any of that. The changelog might have been kinda fun, but > given that it failed to tell us that the patch fixes data-corruption > errors, the changelog was excrutiatingly bad. > > Do we need this fix in 2.6.24.x as well? Let me quote Alan's opinion on this: "I think that would be wise ;)" nothing needs to be added here ;) -- 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
