From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Rolf Offermanns <roffermanns@sysgo.com>
Cc: list linux-ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:32:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107559955.2189.95.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502041122.09390.roffermanns@sysgo.com>
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:22 +0100, Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 23:17, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Do not register interfaces that you know aren't populated...
> >
> > One thing is, the wait code does explicitely check for a value of 0xff
> > and exists in this case (assuming this means no HW at all is wired
> > there). So for some reason, you interface is returning something else,
> > it would be interesting to "see" what value you are getting.
> It's 0xff like you guessed in the first reply. As soon, as I connect a drive
> (no need to turn it on actually), everything is fine.
Well, that's strange then, since the code is explicitely returning
-ENODEV when it encounters that, maybe the caller isn't properly testing
for the error, I'll have to double check. (Can't today)
Ben.
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[not found] <200502011257.40059.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
[not found] ` <pan.2005.02.01.20.21.46.334334@surrey.ac.uk>
2005-02-01 23:18 ` Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-03 10:03 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-03 12:58 ` Rolf Offermanns
2005-02-03 22:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-04 10:22 ` Rolf Offermanns
2005-02-04 23:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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