From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tyler Montbriand Subject: sata_sil on amd64 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:19:35 -0600 Message-ID: <200501221919.35710.tsm@accesscomm.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout1.accesscomm.ca ([204.83.142.27]:21147 "EHLO mailout1.accesscomm.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261173AbVAWBUd (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:20:33 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: jgarzik@pobox.com Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org I have been stuck using kernel 2.6.4 for the last year or so for various reasons, and now I'm in a vicious catch-22. If I don't upgrade, I can't use NPTL, therefore my system will continue to be susceptible to the sigqueue-overflow flaw in linuxthreads. But if I do upgrade, problems in >0.53 sata_sil implementations halt my system in a matter of minutes with dmesg entries about imaginary bad blocks. 0.53 probably has it's own flaws, but it's been rock-solid running a single drive on my computer for a year. How feasible would it be to forward-port this version to a newer kernel, say 2.6.10? If I fix the header problems could it work, or is .10 too structurally different from .4?