From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: sata_sil issue on 2.6.22 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:33:55 +0900 Message-ID: <4756B6D3.9020307@gmail.com> References: <47434526.7010304@verizonbusiness.com> <474CC29E.8020102@gmail.com> <475032AF.6090001@verizonbusiness.com> <4754C15C.1020107@gmail.com> <4756B5B2.1010302@verizonbusiness.com> 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 ([209.85.198.188]:23692 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751761AbXLEOeJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:34:09 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so3643354rvb for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:34:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4756B5B2.1010302@verizonbusiness.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: mark.paulus@verizonbusiness.com Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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