From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/04] sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:39:29 -0500 Message-ID: <497DA0F1.5010509@pobox.com> References: <49750705.7010709@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53474 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbZAZLje (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:39:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49750705.7010709@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: IDE/ATA development list , stable@kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > Fix a longstanding bug for the 8-port Marvell Sata controllers (508x/6081), > where accesses to the upper 4 ports would cause lost-interrupts / timeouts > for the lower 4-ports. With this patch, the 6081 boards should finally be > reliable enough for mainstream use with Linux. > > This patch is for 2.6.29, but should also get reviewed/released > for the -stable branches of 2.6.28, 2.6.27, and 2.6.26. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord --- > > Reposting, as I got no response/acknowledgement on the first attempt. applied 1-3