linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding

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Message-id: <4644F7EC.3080607@shaw.ca>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 17:10:36 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.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

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> They are well documented elsewhere - the standard documents.  For sense
> codes, t10.org.  For SError bits, t13.org.  You can get drafts free of
> charge.

The ATA ones are more of a pain in that regard than SCSI though - SCSI 
has all distinct error codes for different errors, whereas ATA has 
bitmasks for everything..

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