From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265061AbUBOPxO (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:53:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265062AbUBOPxO (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:53:14 -0500 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:25841 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265061AbUBOPxD (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:53:03 -0500 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: chip@pobox.com (Chip Salzenberg) Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc3 - missing IDE hunk from bk4; good or bad? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:58:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402151658.57710.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bad. On Sunday 15 of February 2004 16:22, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Linus writes: > >More merges, although most of them are architecture updates. IA64, > >ppc32/64, SuperH and ARM. > > One non-arch difference between rc3 and bk4 seems to involve IDE DMA. There are no IDE DMA related changes (except build fix) between rc3 and bk4. > When I ran briefly ran bk4 I got a few IDE DMA errors (ThinkPad A30, > TOSHIBA MK8025GAS). Makes one wonder. Thus: Please send dmesg command output and your config kernel config if you want anybody to look at IDE problems... > Is the IDE patch in bk4 (that's missing from rc3) going to be in > 2.6.3? Does it only come into play with SCSI, as it seems to, or > does it affect a non-SCSI setup? This was in SATA libata driver and was reverted because caused problems. [ libata is independent of IDE drivers from linux/drivers/ide/ ] If you don't use libata this chunk shouldn't affect you. Cheers, --bart