Mark Lord wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Folks,
Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge
the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released.
Thanks, Jeff!
Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time
to track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option
that enables passthru. It will default to off.
With passthru, it would really be much better to just leave it enabled
without any option. It's NOT on any main code path, and users/distros
have to intentionally run "smartctl -d ata" or "hdparm /dev/sd*" to
trigger any of it.
So it is already "off", unless somebody wants to use it.
Not really true, as people constantly try (and fail) to use hdparm with
their SATA disks today.
Anyway, I have this weird thing about not turning on something by
default, when I know has it problems ;-)
Jeff
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