Host Protected Area unconditional disable

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 11:29 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
[...]
> It seems that in v2.6.35 a series of patches were committed to mainline
> which handle this situation in exactly the suggested manner, the following
> commits are those which extended the existing IDE functionality to
> ATA drives:
> 
>     libata: implement on-demand HPA unlocking
>     libata: use the enlarged capacity after late HPA unlock
>     SCSI: implement sd_unlock_native_capacity()
> 
> It therefore seems that from v2.6.35 we should be able to drop our force
> disable of HPA in the commit below.  
[...]
> Comments?

Tejun Heo kindly implemented these changes after I reported that this
had become a problem when switching from IDE to libata.  I backported
them to Debian's 2.6.32 kernel and so far we've had no more bug reports.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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