Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Hello.

John Stoffel wrote:

>>>>Ok, so do I need to do anything special with the next -mm release and
>>>>the next version?

>>>Well, let Alan decide that (2Alan: and I said that HPT code is bogus :-).

> Alan> Try drivers/ide/pci/hpt366 - if that works grab a dmesg and let
> Alan> me know.  It means that Sergei's DPLL sync code seems to work
> Alan> better than the vendor code and its time to swap it over.

> Ok, I'll give that a whirl under 2.6.21-rc7 tonight.  I'll build them
> in modular so I can switch around more easily.  I hope.  :]

   You can't switch from the old IDE driver -- they're *not* unloadable. :-/

> Alan> Oh how I love highpoint PATA

   More like PITA. :-D

> It seemed like a good buy at the time when I was researching these
> things.  Best bang for the buck I guess.  It's a RocketRaid133 card,

   As for bang, it's true. You can't imagine how many days/nights I spent bangin' with the driver. :-D

> but obviously I got a bum deal somewhere down the line.

   HPT chips are surely not a good example of how to do things, more like an example how *not* to do. :-)

> John

MBR, Sergei