From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:37:21 +0400 Message-ID: <462521F1.2000806@ru.mvista.com> References: <17956.12963.163961.762444@smtp.charter.net> <4624D4C3.9010109@ru.mvista.com> <17956.63043.521397.597430@smtp.charter.net> <4624FE88.2010908@ru.mvista.com> <20070417181340.7de99868@the-village.bc.nu> <17957.8073.587946.969040@smtp.charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtsoft2.corbina.net ([85.21.88.2]:58756 "HELO mail.dev.rtsoft.ru" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1031140AbXDQTgY (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:36:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <17957.8073.587946.969040@smtp.charter.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: John Stoffel Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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