Re: 2.4.x libata resync

[Jeff Garzik]

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> There are a bunch of small patches in the early 2.6 version which look
> like bugfixes, but with non-descriptive comments, so I'm not sure what
> they fix. Several of them would apply to 2.4, but I don't want to touch
> this area as long as nobody complains about problems.

Oh there are tons of SATA bug fixes that 2.4.x is missing.  One of the 
biggest is the completely crappy exception handling.  If a SATA device 
is unplugged or spazzes out, the system may or may not recover.

	Jeff


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