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

[Alan Cox]

> 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.

I have no reason/evidence to believe it fixes data corruption errors of
any kind. For the specific combinations of device it should simply avoid
a long pause, complaints and a switch to lower speeds.

The ATA disk case with serverworks (which is a potential corruptor) was
always correctly handled.
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