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Message-ID: <466DE438.70108@garzik.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:09:28 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata passthru: support PIO multi commands
Alan Cox wrote:
>> + if (is_multi_taskfile(tf)) {
>> + unsigned int multi_count = 1 << (cdb[1] >> 5);
>> +
>> + /* compare the passed through multi_count
>> + * with the cached multi_count of libata
>> + */
>> + if (multi_count != dev->multi_count)
>> + ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_WARNING,
>> + "invalid multi_count %u ignored\n",
>> + multi_count);
>> + }
>
> What limits log spamming here ?
Intelligence of the user with privs?
> Also shouldn't we error this
> situation not proceed and hope that enough data was supplied not
> to leave us stuck half way through a command having made a nasty
> mess on disk ?
Is that English? Can you be more specific and more clear?
Jeff
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