From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757808AbZFANF5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:05:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754975AbZFANFt (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:05:49 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:49416 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754851AbZFANFt (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:05:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:06:51 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, "Andries E. Brouwer" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert Hancock , Al Viro , Frans Pop Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling Message-ID: <20090601140651.5261ecbb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <87f94c370906010559k4f2694cbv4023129c7b0cbc31@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090531143911.7164.26834.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <87f94c370906010559k4f2694cbv4023129c7b0cbc31@mail.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 On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:59:29 -0400 Greg Freemyer wrote: > Alan, given your emphatic ack, is libata likely to follow the same > model. Any chance we could have a single boot param that handled both If the patches get in then it makes no sense not to implement them identically in libata. > drivers? I mean instead of having 2 module params. No because the modules have different names so it will always be ide_core.something and libata.something Bartlomiej - thinking about this I question "nohpa=" because we get into unneccessary negatives ide_core.hpa= is one less inversion to figure out.