Re: SATA SB600 works in 2.6.20.4 but not in 2.6.21-rc5 with irqpoll parameter

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Matí­as Alejandro Torres wrote:
> 
>> Matias, are you still there?  If so, can you please test the attached
>> patch and see whether it fixes your problem - ie. boots okay without
>> 'pci=nomsi'?
>>
>>  
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I've tried the patch and the kernel showsthe same behaviour. It does not
> work without the pci=nomsi parameter.
> 
> First, i tried with the 2.6.20.10 kernel and it did not work. Then i
> compile the kernel that i had when i start posting (2.6.20.4) but it was
> the same.
> 
> The sata controller mode in the BIOS has been always set to NATIVE-IDE.
> The logs corresponding to the 2.6.20.4 has the bios controller mode set
> to AHCI. But... that doesn't matter, does it?
> 
> I simply patched the kernel, is there any option that i have to enable
> so the modifications take effect?

Well, making it work without pci=nomsi is the whole point here.  I dunno
why this simple thing doesn't work.  Can you post the result of 'lspci
-nn' so that we can see the numeric ID?

-- 
tejun