From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932455AbWFJRDW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:03:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030303AbWFJRDW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:03:22 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:63678 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932455AbWFJRDU (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:03:20 -0400 Message-ID: <448AFB54.3080006@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:03:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: prx CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [2.6.17-rc6-mm1] Oops during sata_promise init References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org prx wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for my late answer. > > The hardware which Oopses due to the third (PATA) channel is: > 02:0b.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. > PDC20575 (SATAII150 TX2plus) (rev 02) > > I know it's the PATA chan which fails because i commented the > part discovering the third channel out, giving me a working > system :) OK, thanks. So it sounds like either #upstream broke #promise-sata-pata, or simply a bug got introduced into the only-used-in-mm-trees version of sata_promise.c. I will look into it, but since Promise PATA-on-SATA support is still highly experimental, I can't promise an immediate response. This isn't something that is in 2.6.17-rc, or even something going into 2.6.18. Jeff