From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: SATA_SIL Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:40:31 +0900 Message-ID: <4729126F.1000108@gmail.com> References: <1193781389.26314.9.camel@ws1.fransdb.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:50274 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752641AbXJaXkj (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:40:39 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so283221rvb for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:40:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1193781389.26314.9.camel@ws1.fransdb.nl> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Frans de Boer Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Frans de Boer wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I know, I am not the only one to find out that we can't upgrade to a > newer kernel when using SUSE 10.3. It seems that in 2.6.23 the sil > modules have been updated (newer versions) and thus render the current > system mostly unuseable. I noticed that in the sata_sil24.c source there > where a significant number of chances, which are probally not easy to > change. Overwriting the newer versions with the versions from 2.6.22.9 > might work, but for how long. Those are backported PMP changes and the code base very similar to 2.6.24-rc1. > Is this a problem SUSE introduced, you forgot to take legacy into > account or is it a "feature". > Is this problem adjusted in 2.6.24-rc1? Please file a bug report at bugzilla.novell.com, attach /var/log/boot.msg and the result of "hwinfo --all" and assign it to teheo@novell.com. Thanks. -- tejun