Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261764AbVBSSXg (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:23:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261766AbVBSSXf (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:23:35 -0500 Received: from ns1.openconsultancy.com ([207.166.203.131]:13444 "EHLO mail.mx.davidcoulson.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261764AbVBSSXe (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:23:34 -0500 X-Spam-Report: SA TESTS -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.9 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Message-ID: <42178422.6000106@davidcoulson.net> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:23:30 -0500 From: David Coulson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML CC: bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl Subject: IDE patch to fix Promise 202xx_new X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 18 I was having lots of DMA problems with a Promise 20269 PCI IDE controller under 2.6.11-rc4, which made it pretty useless. I found the following patch from almost two years ago, which when applied resolved the problems: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-19/1192.html Is there a reason I'm unaware of why this never made it into the main kernel tree? I've not noticed any ill-effects of applying the patch to 2.6.11-rc4. Thanks, David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/