Re: sata_svw data corruption, strange problems

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On Mon 2008-06-23 19:04:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:01 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2008-06-23 17:56:32, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > On Mon 2008-06-23 10:39:40, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > >> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >>
> > > >>> +	   controller, the controller could hang. In other cases it
> > > >>> +	   could return partial data returning in data
> > > >>> +	   corruption. This problem has been seen in PPC systems and
> > > >> s/returning/resulting/ ?
> > > > 
> > > > Fix thinko in sata_svw comment.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Please collapse into one patch.  Thanks.
> 
> Am I the only one to find Pavel variant almost as obscure as
> the original one ? :-)

At least it makes it clear that the bug should not bite in new
releases.

I'm neither native english speaker nor author of this driver, so if
you'd like to improve the comment, please do so. (I spent quite long
time wondering if we do workaround that hw problem or not, that's why
I'm trying to clarify the comment).
								Pavel
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