Tim Blechmann wrote:
>> Can you please try the attached patch and report the result?  The bug
>> shouldn't happen now and for cases where it would have happened,
>> libata will report "link online but device misclassified" and retry.
> 
> this patch cannot be applied onto stable-2.6.31/master ... e.g. the
> first chunk is already in there ....

Eh... the first chunk was for the current devel branch.  Here's a
version without that one.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun