linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20 libata cdrom

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 09:41:45 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>,
	William Thompson <wt@...ctro-mechanical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	albertcc@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 libata cdrom

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> And this is the second one today where it would be very useful
>> to see a tf dump.  It's time to add one to that code patch, methinks.
> 
> Yeah, we have all these fancy ata_msg_() thingies which can be used to
> provide a lot of debugging info without affecting hot path.  We're just
> too lazy to actually use it. :-( Putting it on my ever growing to-do list.

The thing about failures is, we're lucky enough to ever see even a single
end-user error log.  So when we do get the *one* error log from grandma,
it had better contain sufficient info for us to at least guess at the
solution, because grandma has gone back to OS/X in the meanwhile.  ;)

It's a good thing that failure paths are not normally "hot".
We can load those up with a little extra info, so long as they
cannot normally be trigged from userspace to generate a Denial-Of-Service
style of attack.

I think libata drive probing is a pretty safe area to show lots
of information (by default) when something goes wrong.

Cheers!
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