On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:00:57 -0600
Robert Hancock <[email protected]> wrote:
> This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers
> (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to
> libata error handling output. This prevents the need to pore through
> standards documents to figure out the meaning of the bits in these
> registers when looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide
> decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent
> or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity.
Not sure its really worth it. Does "ABRT IDNF" actually tell you any more
than the hex code ? In fact I find the hex code clearer because its
usually the combination of state (0x51) etc that tells the story.
No objection to it going in and on a correctness basis
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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