From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: hd don't show up Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:21:31 +0900 Message-ID: <4ABCC3DB.1000202@kernel.org> References: <4A852BC0.1090404@kernel.org> <4A8559D7.6090405@klingt.org> <4A8774E5.4070609@kernel.org> <4A87D9FC.9070408@klingt.org> <4A96460F.3020600@kernel.org> <4A965E3B.3000808@klingt.org> <4A966F7D.60707@kernel.org> <4A97B9C0.9090003@klingt.org> <4A9B7E1E.8060909@kernel.org> <4A9DAF78.4070703@klingt.org> <4A9DD6D9.50407@kernel.org> <4A9E371A.5040208@klingt.org> <4A9FCD8C.6010107@kernel.org> <4AA18F57.8030107@klingt.org> <4AA1ACF8.7030101@kernel.org> <4AA6C569.9090901@klingt.org> <4AB04B39.7030907@kernel.org> <4AB079FC.6000906@kernel.org> <4AB09562.3010501@klingt.org> <4AB0D34A.2010502@kernel.org> <4ABC44FE.5050904@kernel.org> <4ABC7543.90407@klingt.org> <4ABC7714.2030709@kernel.org> <4ABCADE2.1020300@klingt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:38576 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751537AbZIYNVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:21:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4ABCADE2.1020300@klingt.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Blechmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. >>>> Ping. >>> i haven't run into any further issues with this patch ... so i somehow >>> guess, it solved the problem ... >> In your boot logs, do you ever see messages like "link online but >> device misclassified, retrying"? > > i didn't really pay attention to it ... at my currently running system, > it doesn't show up ... but i will keep my eyes open ... Can you please reboot several times and see whether that happens? The bug is quite obscure and I wanna be sure before pushing it upstream. Thanks. -- tejun