Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips

["Brian Rademacher" <rad@radfiles.net>]

A little over 2 days here on 2.6.27 with no problems....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harri Olin" <harri.olin@gmail.com>
To: "Mark Lord" <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: "IDE/ATA development list" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>; "Jeff Garzik" 
<jgarzik@pobox.com>; "Artem Bokhan" <aptem@ngs.ru>; "Brian Rademacher" 
<rad@radfiles.net>; "Eamonn Hamilton" <EAMONN.HAMILTON@saic.com>; 
<stable@kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips


> 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 <mlord@pobox.com>
>>
>
> After patching no timeouts have occurred for 22 hours on 2.6.28 and 24 
> hours on 2.6.27.6.
>
> Tested-by: Harri Olin <harri.olin@gmail.com>
>
> -- 
> Harri.