Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:30:58 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means." |
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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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