From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031143AbXDQT1P (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031140AbXDQT1O (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:14 -0400 Received: from Mycroft.westnet.com ([216.187.52.7]:47683 "EHLO Mycroft.westnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031137AbXDQT1N (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17957.8073.587946.969040@smtp.charter.net> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:05 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Alan Cox Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , John Stoffel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression In-Reply-To: <20070417181340.7de99868@the-village.bc.nu> References: <17956.12963.163961.762444@smtp.charter.net> <4624D4C3.9010109@ru.mvista.com> <17956.63043.521397.597430@smtp.charter.net> <4624FE88.2010908@ru.mvista.com> <20070417181340.7de99868@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > Ok, so do I need to do anything special with the next -mm release and >> > the next version? >> >> Well, let Alan decide that (2Alan: and I said that HPT code is bogus :-). Alan> Try drivers/ide/pci/hpt366 - if that works grab a dmesg and let Alan> me know. It means that Sergei's DPLL sync code seems to work Alan> better than the vendor code and its time to swap it over. Ok, I'll give that a whirl under 2.6.21-rc7 tonight. I'll build them in modular so I can switch around more easily. I hope. :] Alan> Oh how I love highpoint PATA It seemed like a good buy at the time when I was researching these things. Best bang for the buck I guess. It's a RocketRaid133 card, but obviously I got a bum deal somewhere down the line. Now I've got a Sil3114 SATA controller, which seems to be working just fine now. Hopefully it won't have problems like this! John