linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

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Message-ID: <470261C9.3000700@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:20:41 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

Robert Hancock wrote:
> This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers
> (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to
> libata error handling output.  This prevents the need to pore through
> standards documents to figure out the meaning of the bits in these
> registers when looking at error reports.  Some bits that drivers/ide
> decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent
> or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
> 
> ---
> 
> Rebased to apply to 2.6.23-rc1-mm2.

I'm applying this manually....   sorry it took so long, the asymmetry of 
"{DRDY }" bugged me, so I did a few cleanups.


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