Re: sata_sil issue on 2.6.22

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Mark Paulus wrote:
> Well, I feel foolish. 
> One problem is that the prebuilt kernel is using an initrd
> image, so I made your patch changes, and put them into
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil.ko,
> and guess what, they never got loaded.  Foolishness on my
> part.
> 
> Anyway, this time I got to the single boot prompt, where I did
> a 'rmmod sata_sil', and a 'modprobe sata_sil', and I know
> it loaded the new version, because you can see the 'sata_sil
> 0000:02:0b.0: version 2.2b', which I put in
> to verify what the heck is going on.
> This machine is pretty slow to compile the kernel, which is
> why I was trying to short cut the build/install some, but I might try to
> build the kernel on a faster machine and see if
> I can get the initrd image rebuilt also.

This one is good enough, thanks.  It seems the controller is raising
spurious SATA_IRQ.  I wonder why.  You're using a SATA-PATA bridge,
right?  What chip are you using?

-- 
tejun