>>>>> "Alan" == One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Alan> I assume it's something vaguely of the form Alan> Vendor A has agreed with Oracle that drive identity X will do this Alan> and meet some certification so Oracle can approve it for databases Actually, we don't trust devices to zero anything for us :) Alan> Oracle has agreed to break vendor A's legs if it doesn't Alan> Oracle would rather like that the kernel just knows about this Alan> drive as being good, based on the above. We're generally not dealing with this kind of consumer/SMB hardware at Oracle. So s/Oracle/$OTHER_OEM/, but yeah. My interest in this is purely from the upstream discard lackey perspective... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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