Re: [PATCH] laptop mode

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:

 > > Red Hat just dropped this patch since it was suspected of data 
 > > corruption ;-(
 > Eh? Care to explain a bit further? I'm not aware of any data corruption
 > issues there, and it's certainly simple enough to easily audit.

3-4 cases of random data corruption, all using Quantum Fireball drives,
all with different IDE chipsets.

 > And how kind of Red Hat to not inform me of any suspicion in this
 > regard.

I want to get facts right before crying wolf.
Right now laptopmode/aam is just a suspect. There are still 1-2 other
small patches against IDE which could be the reason.  We've dropped
laptopmode/aam for the time being to see if the folks seeing repeatable
corruption suddenly start behaving again.

		Dave

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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