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
next prev 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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