Re: libata: implement on-demand HPA unlocking

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On 2/10/2011 2:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you start the smart stuff then it also sometimes locks when it
> shouldn't with devastating results for non technical users. I'd say

When?  Is there any specific case you can think of?

>>> Hotplugging and being able to move hard drives between different
>>> machines, and in general behaving consistently across different
>>> hardware configurations have way higher priority than trying to avoid
>>
>> Your auto unlock change seems to address that issue just fine.
> 
> No - because the drive may not even have a partition table on the other
> OS.

Huh?  Either the drive has a partition table or it doesn't.  It does not
matter which machine you plug it into or what another OS is doing.
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