On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 19:38 +0000, Tom Yan wrote: > On 8 July 2016 at 17:29, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Or we could simply patch sg_sanitze to issue the ATA_16 pass > > through when it sees a sata device ... > > > > Ugh that sounds ugly to me. Anyway that's off-topic. Not really. The point is that you've proposed something as an addition to the kernel that can also be done in userspace. Checking if it can work easily there is like a barrier to entry. If it works, then fine, we're done. If it throws up problems then we reconsider the kernel route. James -- 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