Re: [patch 3/3] pata: "I do not think it means, what you think itmeans."

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:34:40 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 March 2008, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > When masking mask out the modes that are unsupported not the ones that are
> > supported.  This makes life happier.
> > 
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Could we get this merged ASAP (it was first posted on 26th February)?
> 
> This patch fixes data corruption for libata PATA ServerWorks and HPT drivers.
> 
> [ IDE users are already leaving happy life since they are not affected
>   (modes masking has always worked correctly in the original drivers)...
> 
>   Can we make life happy also for libata PATA users? :) ]
> 

(edited to undo top-posting damage)

I didn't know any of that.  The changelog might have been kinda fun, but
given that it failed to tell us that the patch fixes data-corruption
errors, the changelog was excrutiatingly bad.

Do we need this fix in 2.6.24.x as well?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/