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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, nico@cam.org, buytenh@wantstofly.org,
	Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sata_mv on Orion: mv_err_intr when shutting down
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:44:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48551CD7.8020303@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806151141.52326.elendil@planet.nl>

Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 15 June 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> The interesting thing here is that sata_mv can see the disk going off
>> the power, which is kind of cool.  The controller and CPU are watching
>> itself as it goes off the life support and is drifting awaaaaaayyyy.
>>
>> The PSU has switched off and power to the drive was cut.  I don't think
>> anything can go wrong at that point.
> 
> What I still find most interesting is that with 2.6.25 the extra 
> message(s) do not appear and the poweroff is "clean". And that it affects 
> 2 different systems where one seems to live on just a bit longer than the 
> other. So it does look as if something _has_ changed.
> 
> I'll probably do a bisect to see if I can discover what/where/why...
..

Sure, go for it.

But I think that you will simply discover that,
the sata_mv driver now actually correctly detects/reports most errors,
which it didn't necessarily do in the past.

There were lots of EH bugfixes in sata_mv this time around.

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-15 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 13:26 sata_mv on Orion: mv_err_intr when shutting down Martin Michlmayr
2008-05-12 15:39 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-12 15:46   ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-05-12 19:15     ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-06-12 18:18       ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-06-13 12:42         ` Mark Lord
2008-06-13 16:12           ` Frans Pop
2008-06-13 16:56             ` Mark Lord
2008-06-13 17:10               ` Frans Pop
2008-06-13 19:01                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-13 19:20                   ` Mark Lord
2008-06-13 19:31                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-15  2:18               ` Tejun Heo
2008-06-15  9:41                 ` Frans Pop
2008-06-15 10:54                   ` Byron Bradley
2008-06-15 13:44                   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-06-22 14:37         ` Martin Michlmayr

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