ata_piix init/performance regression ?

2007-12-07 Thread devzero
Hello ! on my old fujitsu-siemens lifebook, booting is at least 20 seconds slower as before. on ata_piix init i can see 2 longer delays of ~10 seconds each, which didn`t happen before. i`m using SuSE kernel of the day from http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/ problem exists with the

pata_winbond doesn`t unregister from sysfs - bug?

2008-01-04 Thread devzero
Hi, this looks like a bug to me (see below) happens on 2.6.24rc6 and i came across this by chance... i`m here on notebook with vmware only, so i cannot test if this happens on real hardware, too. maybe someone can try "modprobe pata_winbond" twice and see if this is reproduceable regards