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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@dgreaves.com,
	jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:56:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46665AB5.6040508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070605215256.GT31565@havoc.gtf.org>

Hello,

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:46PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> I can easily reproduce the problem in 2.6.22-rc4. There are no
>> sata_promise changes between rc3 and rc4, but Tejun's libata
>> polling SETXFER change was included in rc4. Reverting it makes
>> sata_promise work again for me.
> 
> Ugh.

Ugh...

>> I suspect that sata_promise.c:pdc_interrupt() should detect
>> a qc w/ ATA_TFLAG_POLLING, treat the interrupt as spurious,
>> and just call ata_chk_status(qc), similar to how sata_inic162x.c,
>> sata_nv.c, sata_sil.c, and sata_vsc.c do things.
> 
> Yes, highly likely.

I'm not sure whether that will work.  I'll give a shot at it here.

> SFF-like controllers (and in this case, Promise is included in that
> list) with their own interrupt handlers need their own polling handling
> code.

One thing I don't understand is why IDENTIFY works.  IDENTIFY uses
polling too.  Hmm...

-- 
tejun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 21:31 Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3 Mikael Pettersson
2007-06-05 21:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-05 23:37   ` walt
2007-06-06  6:56   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-06-06 10:21     ` [REPOST PATCH] sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands Tejun Heo
2007-06-06 15:42       ` walt
2007-06-06 16:05       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-06 16:34         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-07 17:20         ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-07 17:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 17:30             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 15:17       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 15:45         ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-06 10:36 Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3 Mikael Pettersson
2007-06-05  3:50 Linux 2.6.22-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2007-06-05 16:14 ` Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3 David Greaves

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