Re: [Fwd: [BUG] sata_via doesn't detect anymore my disks (broken between rc1 and rc3)]

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>>>> The second patch is essentially identical to what you did the
>>>>> one liner.  Can you please check it once more?  I'll prepare
>>>>> old-sequence hardreset in the meantime.
>>>> Okay, here's the old-sequence hardreset patch.  This should have
>>>> the highest chance of working.  This patch should be applied on
>>>> top of the vt6420 patch.
>>> On top of which patch?
>>> I just tried to apply it on top of:
>>> - your last week patch
>>> - your two patches of this week
>>> and it does *not* apply on top of anyone...
>> Arghh... Sorry.  I sent the wrong version.  This patch is against
>> #upstream while I should have sent the one against #upstream-fixes.
>>
>>> Couldn't you either check first your patch or (better) just send a
>>> patch against vanilla 2.6.18-rc4-mm2?
>> I've attached whole sata_via.c to the other mail.  I think that should
>> do the trick.
> 
> It didn't (tested by overwriting 2.6.18-rc4-mm2's driver).
> I tried a few reset methods combinations w/os success.
> Like in other faillure cases, the driver saw the two links but failed
> to see the hd attached to the second sata link.

Hmmm.. That's very weird.  The detection sequence is almost identical to 
the original code.  Argh.....  Any ideas?

-- 
tejun