Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 05:26:08 EST


On Llu, 2006-02-27 at 23:16 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Or maybe a whitelist instead, since nearly all existing hardware
> pre-dates FUA commands.

For controllers just add it as a host flag and it can be handled the
same way as LBA48 is right now. It may also be some hosts can issue FUA
with a bit of bandaging (state machine resets/pio etc)

Alan

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