From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764840AbYBLVAk (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760092AbYBLVAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:30 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:49198 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756606AbYBLVA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and other goodies From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Gabriel Paubert Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <20080212114905.GA9940@iram.es> References: <20080208004421.17746.32557.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <1202460043.7079.157.camel@pasglop> <20080212114905.GA9940@iram.es> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:59:52 +1100 Message-Id: <1202849992.7410.19.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:49 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:40:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:44 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > - couple of fixes and preparatory patches > > > > > > - rework of PowerMac media-bay support ([un]register IDE devices instead of > > > [un]registering IDE interface) [ it is the main reason for spamming PPC ML ] > > > > Interesting... I was thinking about doing a full remove of the device at > > a higher level instead but I suppose what you propose is easier. > > Well, I have serious problem on a Pegasos which appeared some time > between 2.6.24 and 2.6.25-rc1: at boot I get an infinite string of > > hdb: empty DMA table? > > I'm trying to bisect it right now. Pegasos doesn't use the pmac ide which is what we were discussing. It uses a VIA IDE which uses a normal PRD table. So something else must have broken... Ben.