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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>,
	Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/03] sata_mv: revert SoC irq breakage
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:16:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DA9B5A.8050809@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DA2DFD.4010402@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord wrote:
> Revert most of commit 6be96ac1d5e4d913e1f48299db083ada5321803b2,
> originally from Lennert Buijtenheck (Marvell) and Saeed Bishara (Marvell),
> since that commit causes sata_mv to oops at startup on SOC "Kirkwood".
> 
> The SOC variants do not have the hpriv->irq_{cause,mask}_ofs registers,
> so don't try to write to them!
> 
> This patch should also be considered for -stable.
> 
> Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>

applied 1-8


> Note: I am mostly in the dark about the sata_mv SOC stuff,
> since I have incomplete documentation and no hardware to test with.

As much as we'd like to always have a test kit for each bit of source 
under our perview, that almost never happens as the driver set expands 
[or, in sata_mv's case, as the driver expands].

You just do as best you can, and poke various people for 
testing/verification of other stuff


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06 16:29 [PATCH 01/03] sata_mv: revert SoC irq breakage Mark Lord
2009-04-06 16:30 ` [PATCH 02/03] sata_mv: fix irq mask races Mark Lord
2009-04-06 16:31   ` [PATCH 03/03] sata_mv: replace 0x1f with ATA_PIO4 Mark Lord
2009-04-06 19:22     ` [PATCH 03/03] sata_mv: replace 0x1f with ATA_PIO4 (v2) Mark Lord
2009-04-06 19:24       ` [PATCH 04/07] sata_mv: workaround errata PCI#7 Mark Lord
2009-04-06 19:24         ` [PATCH 05/07] sata_mv: workaround errata SATA#26 Mark Lord
2009-04-06 19:25           ` [PATCH 06/07] sata_mv: cosmetic renames Mark Lord
2009-04-06 19:26             ` [PATCH 07/07] sata_mv: workaround errata SATA#13 Mark Lord
2009-04-06 20:43               ` [PATCH 08/08] sata_mv: shorten register names Mark Lord
2009-04-06 19:51             ` [PATCH 06/07] sata_mv: cosmetic renames Jeff Garzik
2009-04-06 20:12               ` Mark Lord
2009-04-07  0:16 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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