From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267507AbUGWC6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267508AbUGWC6g (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:58:36 -0400 Received: from [216.208.38.106] ([216.208.38.106]:42741 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267507AbUGWC6d (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:58:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:05:39 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Nathan Bryant Cc: Luben Tuikov , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, random1@o-o.yi.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] prelim ACPI support for aic7xxx Message-ID: <20040723010539.GA1477@elf.ucw.cz> References: <41006A88.9040700@optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41006A88.9040700@optonline.net> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > This patch (against arjanv's latest kernel, but should apply to > 2.6.8-rc) is still a little messy and NOT ready to go into the mainline > kernel... Luben hasn't seen it yet (Hi Luben!), so the usual disclaimers > apply. But it's time to get some more eyes on it. The good news is it > works, the bad news is there is no support for error recovery during > those few seconds when the bus is setttling and hard disk is powering up > after a resume. (Need suggestions on how best to attack that part, I > really don't know anything about SCSI...) It works, after a few > residuals if your filesystems are mounted read-only, however. If you are > mounted read-write then you will get aborted commands, ext3 will > complain, and remount your fs read-only until you reboot. To avoid this, > remount read-only, suspend/resume, then remount read-write manually > after everything starts working. If ou are playing with this kind of stuff, I suggest you to use ext2 (not ext3) or at least fsck *very* often. Pavel -- When do you have heart between your knees?