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SubjectRe: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:34:40 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 March 2008, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> >
> > When masking mask out the modes that are unsupported not the ones that are
> > supported. This makes life happier.
> >
>
> Jeff,
>
> Could we get this merged ASAP (it was first posted on 26th February)?
>
> This patch fixes data corruption for libata PATA ServerWorks and HPT drivers.
>
> [ IDE users are already leaving happy life since they are not affected
> (modes masking has always worked correctly in the original drivers)...
>
> Can we make life happy also for libata PATA users? :) ]
>

(edited to undo top-posting damage)

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.

Do we need this fix in 2.6.24.x as well?


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