bin/159833: camcontrol(8): [patch] add ATA security options to camcontrol including secure erase

[Steven Hartland]

The following reply was made to PR bin/159833; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <jdc at koitsu.org>,
	<bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: <mav at freebsd.org>,
	<avg at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: bin/159833: camcontrol(8): [patch] add ATA security options to camcontrol including secure erase
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:19:48 -0000

 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <jdc at koitsu.org>
 
 
 > This incredibly useful PR/patch has been neglected for over a year.
 > 
 > SSDs are mainstream now and being used commonly by FreeBSD users.  This
 > greatly increases the want for secure erase.  Sure, we have TRIM for
 > UFS, and HEAD/CURRENT has TRIM for ZFS, and that's good at keeping
 > the FTL optimal on an SSD, but let's be reasonable here.
 > 
 > Alexander and Andriy, I know you're both busy, but can either of you
 > review this?
 > 
 > If you need/want an updated patch (specifically for 8.3 and 9.x), I can
 > provide updated ones (will take me some time of course).
 > 
 > Thanks guys.
 
 I have an updated version of this patch which is waiting on finishing
 off some cam related patches that I'm working with mav@ on.
 
 So for now lets hold off on this one and I'll get the updated across once
 the dependencies are all place :)
 
     Regards
     Steve
 
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