linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."

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Message-ID: <20080305115610.397b3ea3@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:56:10 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, alan@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it
 means."


> I didn't know any of that.  The changelog might have been kinda fun, but
> given that it failed to tell us that the patch fixes data-corruption
> errors, the changelog was excrutiatingly bad.

I have no reason/evidence to believe it fixes data corruption errors of
any kind. For the specific combinations of device it should simply avoid
a long pause, complaints and a switch to lower speeds.

The ATA disk case with serverworks (which is a potential corruptor) was
always correctly handled.
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