From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata: implement on-demand HPA unlocking
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:18:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D557D8A.6050607@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110210193124.321b7ad6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On 2/10/2011 2:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you start the smart stuff then it also sometimes locks when it
> shouldn't with devastating results for non technical users. I'd say
When? Is there any specific case you can think of?
>>> Hotplugging and being able to move hard drives between different
>>> machines, and in general behaving consistently across different
>>> hardware configurations have way higher priority than trying to avoid
>>
>> Your auto unlock change seems to address that issue just fine.
>
> No - because the drive may not even have a partition table on the other
> OS.
Huh? Either the drive has a partition table or it doesn't. It does not
matter which machine you plug it into or what another OS is doing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 20:23 libata: implement on-demand HPA unlocking Phillip Susi
2011-02-09 8:59 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-09 15:20 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-09 15:37 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-09 15:36 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-09 18:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-02-09 19:45 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 9:44 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-10 18:47 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 19:07 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-09 19:39 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-09 19:36 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-09 20:47 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-02-09 21:12 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-09 21:13 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-09 21:28 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-09 21:39 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-10 0:23 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-10 18:58 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 19:19 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-11 18:16 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 12:49 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2011-02-10 19:20 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 19:35 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-11 18:22 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 19:37 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-09 21:41 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-10 0:35 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 1:46 ` Robert Hancock
2011-02-10 9:13 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-10 19:11 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 19:31 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-11 18:18 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2011-02-11 18:25 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-11 18:38 ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-10 19:32 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-10 19:34 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-11 18:30 ` Phillip Susi
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