From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763605AbXJEUrS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:47:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761008AbXJEUrJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:47:09 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:52943 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760813AbXJEUrI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:47:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:51:47 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: "Mike Robak" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libATA error message doc Message-ID: <20071005215147.42bdc01d@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <2b40bfd30710031039y70252a8bk898b102c993a92af@mail.gmail.com> <20071003192453.0ed967f1@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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.