From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761701AbZE0Kh6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 06:37:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759196AbZE0Khu (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 06:37:50 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:47230 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758333AbZE0Kht (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 06:37:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:38:57 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Frans Pop , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ide: add "ignore_hpa" module parameter Message-ID: <20090527113857.2a30e9d7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200905261915.47212.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200905252344.11826.bzolnier@gmail.com> <200905261423.40117.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090526135343.5bcaa92b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200905261915.47212.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > All information was there (kernel logs). > > Moreover the default in libata is to not remove HPA settings. > > I don't recommend parsing kernels logs in search of such information but > you're are stretching the reality too far to match with your arguments. So you disagree that sysfs is needed and propose an alternative that you say you don't recommend (and which doesn't solve the block problem). I used to work for a distro, and telling Bill Nottingham that the reliable long term way for Fedora to obtain some interface data was by grepping dmesg wouldn't have gone down well. Alan