Re: sata_promise: Keeps saying SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

2008-01-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Kurt Roeckx writes: Hi, I've just tried the 2.6.24-rc7 kernel (from Debian's experimental kernel archive), running the x86_64 kernel. I keep getting things like this in my log: Jan 13 19:21:10 intrepid kernel: ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xa frozen

Re: [RFC 1/2] block: implement drain buffers

2008-01-14 Thread James Bottomley
Jens pointed out that I need to lower both phys and hw segments in the drain set up, so an updated patch is attached. James --- From 7d5cff0af8a2d4017d0b5246aaef33327b053495 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:30:36 -0600 Subject: block:

Re: sudo: User Impersonation / Receiving bugzilla status emails

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Bligh
Ansgar Knappheide wrote: Hello, I think something went wrong on your mailinglist, because I'm not aware to be member of Kernel Bug Tracker nor the bugzilla.kernel.org mailinglist, none the less I got an email that someone is impersonating me on Kernel Bug Tracker 2 days ago. Since then I'm

RE: Sata 4726 Testing

2008-01-14 Thread Gaston, Jason D
Gaston, for the initial detection failure messages when connected to ICH AHCI, I don't really have much idea what's going on or how to fix it. I suspect it's related to initial FISes from drives arriving asynchronously after hard resets but can't tell much without bus analyzer. Anyways, as EH can

libata-scsi.c: new check-after-use

2008-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit 9b8e8de7e59b3a2dab3113d620b52dc8ba890fb3 did: --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -872,7 +872,8 @@ int ata_scsi_slave_config(struct scsi_device *sdev) ata_scsi_sdev_config(sdev); - sdev-manage_start_stop = 1; + if (dev-class ==

Re: [PATCH 0/12] ide-floppy redux v2.5

2008-01-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Sunday 13 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: Hi Bart, here are the remaining patches which had issues to be worked out. I decided to keep the Flexible Disk Page and Capacity Descriptor in idefloppy_floppy_t for the sake of the two printk calls for which they are used. Otherwise,

Re: [PATCH 8/12] ide-floppy: merge idefloppy_{input,output}_buffers

2008-01-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 13 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: We merge idefloppy_{input,output}_buffers() into idefloppy_io_buffers() by introducing a 4th arg. called direction. According to its value we atapi_input_bytes() or atapi_output_bytes(). Also, this simplifies the interrupt handler logic a bit.

Re: [PATCH 10/12] ide-floppy: remove atomic test_*bit macros

2008-01-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 13 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: ..and replace them with flag enums. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c | 132 + 1 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) [...] @@ -506,14

Re: [PATCH 11/12] ide-floppy: remove IDEFLOPPY_DEBUG_INFO

2008-01-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 13 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: [...] - printk(KERN_ERR ide-floppy: Packet size is not 12 bytes long\n); + printk(KERN_ERR ide-floppy: Packet size is not 12 bytes + long\n); I added dumping 'gcw.packet_size' for

Re: [PATCH 10/12] ide-floppy: remove atomic test_*bit macros

2008-01-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Monday 14 January 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: ..and replace them with flag enums. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] small update: PC_ABORT is never set and may as well be removed in a pre-patch - To

Re: Trouble with hdparm -d on Dell D610

2008-01-14 Thread Kristin Vadas Marsicano
On 1/11/08, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My concern with disabling the new drivers is as follows: I use this linux kernel and config image to boot machines over PXE and call a shred program on each of the harddrives. If I turn off CONFIG_ATA, will this limit my ability to support

Re: Trouble with hdparm -d on Dell D610

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
In looking through my config file, I don't see CONFIG_IDE_PIIX. Below is a list of all the config entries that contain the patter PIIX: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y Any suggestions on how I may turn of the conflicting piix support?

[PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: relocate sdev-manage_start_stop configuration

2008-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
After 9b8e8de7, manage_start_stop configuration depends on valid ATA device. Move it into ata_scsi_dev_config(). This was detected by the coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed,

Re: sata_promise: Keeps saying SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

2008-01-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:30:07AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: The chip repeatedly signals plug and unplug events on its second ATA port. This is not a common error. I need a lot more information to debug this: - the output of /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.

Re: PROBLEM REMAINS: [sata_nv ADMA breaks ATAPI] Crash on accessing DVD-RAM

2008-01-14 Thread Robert Hancock
James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 16:29 +, Alan Cox wrote: Yes, I concur for the short term. The other two possible courses of action either involve long discussions (the different device one) or you'll never quite be sure you got all the paths (the GFP_DMA32 one). At least with

Re: PROBLEM REMAINS: [sata_nv ADMA breaks ATAPI] Crash on accessing DVD-RAM

2008-01-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:41 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: James Bottomley wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 16:29 +, Alan Cox wrote: Yes, I concur for the short term. The other two possible courses of action either involve long discussions (the different device one) or you'll never quite

[Fwd: [PATCH] libata fixes]

2008-01-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Any comments? ACK? ---BeginMessage--- In pata_legacy and pata_winbond we've got bugs - cpu_to_le16() instead of cpu_to_le32(). Fortunately, both affected suckers are VLB, thus l-e-only, so we might get away with that unless we hit it with slop == 3 (hadn't checked if playing with badly aligned

[git patches] libata fixes

2008-01-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/ata/ata_piix.c| 51 + drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c |6 ++--

Re: [PATCH 10/12] ide-floppy: remove atomic test_*bit macros

2008-01-14 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:50:58PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: ..and replace them with flag enums. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c | 132