Re: sata_sil issue on 2.6.22

[Mark Paulus <mark.paulus@verizonbusiness.com>]

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Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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?
> 
Yes, I am.  It's a SD-ADSAIDE-S1, with a 
sil3611ct80 chip on board.

My question would be, what makes the 2.6.22 kernel different enough
than the 2.6.18 kernel that this setup is causing problems in .22.
Is .18 masking the problems, or is .22 just looking at things with
tighter tolerences, so it's more sensitive?
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