Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Robert Hancock 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
>
> ---
>
> Rebased to apply to 2.6.23-rc1-mm2.

I'm applying this manually....   sorry it took so long, the asymmetry of 
"{DRDY }" bugged me, so I did a few cleanups.


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