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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Mike Robak" <mrobak@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libATA error message doc
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:51:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071005215147.42bdc01d@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p737im15q8s.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

> I always found that quite convenient. Putting at least a summary in Documentation
> would probably user-friendly. It tends to be hard to find stuff in specifications,
> especially if you're not very familiar with the standard.

There are over 100 commands, and the status bits can only be read in
combination and according to some interpretation rules - it would be
quite a long document. The standards are also all publically available in
this case, albeit not neccessarily the most interesting read

AFAIK there is a patch queued to print some of the data in a more user
friendly format.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 17:39 Mike Robak
2007-10-03 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-05 19:13   ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-05 20:51     ` Alan Cox [this message]

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