From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Nelson <mdnelson8@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:01:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BD2B37.6060000@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902125310.729b0997@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Apparently this chip also supports SAS disks, will these work with the
>>> ahci driver (I've only tested with normal desktop SATA disks)?
>> ahci is definitely SATA-only, so I wonder how they modified AHCI to
>> support SAS transport...
>
> Jeff while are on that subject a further reminder - AHCI is also breaking
> Marvell PATA device support for this reason and we now have months of
> regressions because of that.
Refresh my memory... what is the problem with loading pata_marvell first?
AFAICS, if you load pata_marvell before ahci, it will grab the PATA
disks and the PCI device itself.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 11:03 [RFC][PATCH] ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819 Mark Nelson
2008-09-02 11:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-02 11:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 12:01 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-09-02 13:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-02 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 22:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 11:55 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-02 12:08 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-09-02 12:21 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-04 10:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-04 11:59 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-04 13:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-04 14:27 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-09-04 14:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-05 2:31 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-05 2:28 ` Mark Nelson
2008-10-16 11:18 ` Mark Nelson
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