From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harri Olin Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:08:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4970E958.1040800@gmail.com> References: <496D04EB.3060803@rtr.ca> <496E53DD.6040408@gmail.com> <496E61E8.5010602@rtr.ca> <496E72D7.2070206@gmail.com> <496EA53F.7000605@rtr.ca> <496F34BF.5010701@ngs.ru> <4970BDC6.7020201@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi ([195.197.172.111]:41594 "EHLO gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756441AbZAPUJK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:09:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4970BDC6.7020201@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Artem Bokhan , Brian Rademacher , Eamonn Hamilton , stable@kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Fix a longstanding bug for the 8-port Marvell Sata controllers > (508x/6081), > where accesses to the upper 4 ports would cause lost-interrupts / > timeouts > for the lower 4-ports. With this patch, the 6081 boards should > finally be > reliable enough for mainstream use with Linux. > > This patch is for 2.6.29, but should also get reviewed/released > for the -stable branches of 2.6.28, 2.6.27, and 2.6.26. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord > After patching no timeouts have occurred for 22 hours on 2.6.28 and 24 hours on 2.6.27.6. Tested-by: Harri Olin -- Harri.