Re: [PATCH pata-2.6 fix queue] hpt366: don't check enablebits for HPT36x

[linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:47:04AM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
> 
> >>>  Linas, Andries, Michal, cound you try this instead:
> >>>
> >>>    d->enablebits[0].mask = d->enablebits[0].val = 0x10;
> 
> >   It probably won't work the way it should anyway -- the secondary 
> >channel (and controller in this case) uses another bit in this register 
> >and the controllers get registered with IDE core "in pair".

Setting d->enablebits[0].mask = d->enablebits[0].val = 0x10; makes
my system bootable, and so this works well enough for me.  Without this
patch, mainline 2.6.21.1 is broken, and so I'll say it again:

Please submit a patch to the stable branch so that this gets generically
fixed!  I'll happily Ack it. 

--linas