Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030856AbWLPLNp (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:13:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030857AbWLPLNp (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:13:45 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:40745 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030856AbWLPLNo (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:13:44 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm] Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:16:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Jeff Garzik , Neil Brown , Jurriaan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Alan References: <20061204203410.6152efec.akpm@osdl.org> <200612160038.03149.rjw@sisk.pl> <200612161056.26830.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200612161056.26830.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612161216.07669.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2622 Lines: 72 On Saturday, 16 December 2006 10:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > > > >> Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time > > > >>> and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. > > > >>> > > > >>> I'll then do a rc1-mm2 without them. > > > >> hm, this is looking like a lot of work for not much gain. Rafael, are > > > >> you able to do a quick chop and tell us whether these: > > > >> > > > >> pci-move-pci_vdevice-from-libata-to-core.patch > > > >> pata_cs5530-suspend-resume-support-tweak.patch > > > >> ata-fix-platform_device_register_simple-error-check.patch > > > >> initializer-entry-defined-twice-in-pata_rz1000.patch > > > >> pata_via-suspend-resume-support-fix.patch > > > >> sata_nv-add-suspend-resume-support.patch > > > >> libata-simulate-report-luns-for-atapi-devices.patch > > > >> user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-patch-ata-subsystem.patch > > > >> libata-fix-oops-with-sparsemem.patch > > > >> sata_nv-fix-kfree-ordering-in-remove.patch > > > >> libata-dont-initialize-sg-in-ata_exec_internal-if-dma_none-take-2.patch > > > >> pci-quirks-fix-the-festering-mess-that-claims-to-handle-ide-quirks-ide-fix.patch > > > >> > > > >> are innocent? > > > > > > > > Yes, they are. > > > > > > We all really appreciate your patience :) This is good feedback. > > > > > > To narrow down some more, does applying 2.6.20-rc1 + the attached patch > > > work? (ignoring -mm tree altogether) > > > > Yes, it does. > > I've applied the patches from -rc1-mm1 up to and including > > problem-phy-probe-not-working-properly-for-ibm_emac-ppc4xx.patch > > on top of 2.6.20-rc1 and they don't seem to break anything. Will try some > more. The patch that breaks things is somewhere between dont-export-device-ids-to-userspace.patch and funsoft-is-bust-on-sparc.patch inclusive. Now I'll need to resync my disk arrays so if anyone has any suggestions what to try next, I'll be grateful. ;-) Greetings, Rafael -- If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King - 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/