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Message-ID: <46449E59.90608@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:48:25 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
CC: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding
Robert Hancock wrote:
>>> + ehc->i.serror & SERR_TRANS_ST_ERROR ? "TransStatTransErr "
>>> : "",
>>> + ehc->i.serror & SERR_UNRECOG_FIS ? "UnrecogFIS " : "",
>>> + ehc->i.serror & SERR_DEV_XCHG ? "DevExchanged " : "" );
>>
>> I'm not really convinced whether this is necessary. The human readable
>> form is also a bit cryptic and can get quite long. So, mild NACK from
>> me.
>>
>
> It certainly seems useful when debugging hotplug issues or random SATA
> problems which end up being caused by communication problems. Without
> this output, Joe User stands no chance of figuring out what's going on,
> and neither does Joe libata Developer unless they really care to dig
> through the spec and count bits to figure out what they mean. At least
> with this you can see that there was a CRC error, etc. and go from that..
>
Why not just document the error messages?
And the scsi ones too, I can't seem to find what the sense codes mean.
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