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SubjectRe: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think it means."
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On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

Let me quote Alan's opinion on this:

"I think that would be wise ;)"

nothing needs to be added here ;)


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