From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH alt4 v2] libata resume fixes Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 17:14:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4478C121.3010607@garzik.org> References: <20060527195847.GA28334@havoc.gtf.org> <20060527201024.GA29015@havoc.gtf.org> <4478B312.5040901@garzik.org> <4478B611.2030201@rtr.ca> <4478B743.2050006@garzik.org> <4478B971.3060409@rtr.ca> <4478BD09.5010309@garzik.org> <4478BDFD.60209@rtr.ca> <4478BF72.5010708@garzik.org> <4478C013.90900@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:48785 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964943AbWE0VOM (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 17:14:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4478C013.90900@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >> >>> But does it fall over any worse than we already do with the stock >>> kernel? >> >> Are you talking about my x86-64 box + Linus's patch, or the future >> implications? >> >> For the former, the previous behavior was EH spew like what you are >> seeing. After apply Linus's patch, it hardlocks. But I don't want >> that to hold up the patch... libata suspend/resume is one part luck, >> and one part "it's only ata_piix so far." It has a looooong way to go >> before it is usable outside of that domain. > > I was asking if Linus's one-liner patch makes things any worse > than they already were on your own machine. It sounds like "Not". The state changes from "kernel alive, but not useful" to "hardlock." Jeff