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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:24:06 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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Subject: Re: For -stable: sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips
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Mark Lord wrote:
> commit b0bccb18bc523d1d5060d25958f12438062829a9
> Author: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
> Date:   Mon Jan 19 18:04:37 2009 -0500
> 
>    sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips
>       Fix a longstanding bug for the 8-port Marvell Sata controllers 
> (508x/6081),
>    where accesses to the upper 4 ports would cause lost-interrupts / 
> timeouts
>    for the lower 4-ports.  With this patch, the 6081 boards should 
> finally be
>    reliable enough for mainstream use with Linux.
>       Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
>    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> This should be backported to all -stable kernels.

ACK / agreed


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