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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@fold.natur.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: clear error mask of old error history
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:29:20 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F913A80.3030207@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334885938.4927.11.camel@minggr>

Hello.

On 20-04-012 5:38, Lin Ming wrote:

> The old error history was cleared in ata_ering_clear().
> It only sets ATA_EFLAG_OLD_ER eflags, but the err_mask was not cleared.
> So ata_ering_map() still iterates the old error history.

> This causes problem, for example, wrong probe trials count were returned in
> ata_eh_schedule_probe(), which in turn causes SATA link speed to be slowed down
> to 1.5Gbps.

> Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Mokrejs<mmokrejs@fold.natur.cuni.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming<ming.m.lin@intel.com>
> ---

> Hi Jeff,

> This patch fixes an old regression introduced in 2.6.37-rc1
> of commit d902747.

> So it should be included into stable releases since 2.6.37.

    You should have included:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.37+

after your signoff in this case.

MBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20  1:38 [PATCH] libata: clear error mask of old error history Lin Ming
2012-04-20 10:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2012-04-23  1:09   ` Lin Ming

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