Re: [PATCH] libata: Handle bay devices in dock stations

Matthew Garrett
2008-06-09T01:48:18Z

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:44:01AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:

> TF-based ATA controllers are very sensitive to how the registers are
> accessed and sometimes lock up the whole machine when they are not happy
> by indefinitely holding the PCI bus. This could have been the case if
> IOs were in flight when the dock event occurred. Were they?

I'd stopped hal, so I can't imagine that userspace was causing any to be
generated at that point.

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