linux-kernel - Re: libATA error message doc

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Message-ID: <20071005215147.42bdc01d@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:51:47 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Mike Robak" <mrobak@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libATA error message doc

> I always found that quite convenient. Putting at least a summary in Documentation
> would probably user-friendly. It tends to be hard to find stuff in specifications,
> especially if you're not very familiar with the standard.

There are over 100 commands, and the status bits can only be read in
combination and according to some interpretation rules - it would be
quite a long document. The standards are also all publically available in
this case, albeit not neccessarily the most interesting read

AFAIK there is a patch queued to print some of the data in a more user
friendly format.
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