From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030277AbXBTQwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:52:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030266AbXBTQwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:52:12 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:48597 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030277AbXBTQwK (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:52:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:56:00 +0000 From: Alan To: bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] siimage: DRAC4 note Message-ID: <20070220175600.43476be1@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The Dell DRAC4 has some interesting features including effectively hot unplugging/replugging the virtual CD interface when the DRAC is reset. This often causes drivers/ide/siimage to panic but is ok with the rather smarter code in libata. Just note this fact in the driver docs. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.20-mm2/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c linux-2.6.20-mm2/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c --- linux.vanilla-2.6.20-mm2/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c 2007-02-20 13:38:01.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.20-mm2/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c 2007-02-20 13:59:44.000000000 +0000 @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ * If you have strange problems with nVidia chipset systems please * see the SI support documentation and update your system BIOS * if neccessary + * + * If you are using a Dell DRAC4 you should use the libata driver + * if possible. */ #include