From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:12:36 +0100 Message-ID: <200802240012.36571.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20080222165122.8D2BB93C12F@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org> <20080222213932.3403F93C12F@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org> <20080223221721.5C8502DC002@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:25564 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751070AbYBWW7d (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:59:33 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so272377ugc.16 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:59:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080223221721.5C8502DC002@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Anders Eriksson Cc: Mark Lord , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux IDE mailing list , Jens Axboe Hi, On Saturday 23 February 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote: > > aeriksson@fastmail.fm said: > >> But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and > >> it really is worth moving things over if you can. > > > > Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things... > > Having switched to ata_piix i can confirm that smartd doesn't hand the system > anymore. > > Still.. There seem to be a bug vs. the old drivers somewhere. Will that be > addressed, or should there be a big warning for the old stuff (DEPRECATED?) Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect? [ the "old" stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ] Thanks, Bart