From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sander Subject: Re: Some sata_mv error messages Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:28:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20060321072859.GB4089@favonius> References: <20060318044056.350a2931.akpm@osdl.org> <20060320133318.GB32762@favonius> <441F508E.1030008@pobox.com> <441F8599.7080703@rtr.ca> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ookhoi.xs4all.nl ([213.84.114.66]:15574 "EHLO favonius.humilis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932196AbWCUH3B (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:29:01 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <441F8599.7080703@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , sander@humilis.net, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lkml@rtr.ca Mark Lord wrote (ao): > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >For now, the goal is a system that doesn't crash and doesn't corrupt > >data. If its occasionally slow or spits out a few errors, but > >otherwise still works, that's pretty darned good :) > > I'm currently working with the original authors of sata_mv, and have > taken over maintenance of it for now. It should progress from "highly > experimental" to "production quality" over the next month or so. Thanks a lot :-) > The (mucho) updated driver I'm using here now is already much improved > in many ways. At some point, I'll break it out into patches for Jeff. > > But there's one MAJOR bugfix patch that I'll release here shortly, to > go with the interrupt handler fix already posted. I've actually a patched kernel ready to test your patch. Only need to boot the server, so will do that this afternoon and report back. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net