Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-12 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:00:15 + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Meanwhile, to solve the problem for these people, and without introducing > > a lot of new code at this stage in the release, perhaps you can suggest > > a more accurate way to detect PATA vs. SATA so we can fix the bug?

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Meanwhile, to solve the problem for these people, and without introducing > a lot of new code at this stage in the release, perhaps you can suggest > a more accurate way to detect PATA vs. SATA so we can fix the bug? I think the problem starts with the question. It supposes the BIOS knows the

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-12 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:40:59 + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead merge the one that fixe the non PCI > crashes and we might get further. In bugzilla #7907 you could post your patch and see if the reporters there can at least confirm that it fixes their problem. Meanwhile, to solv

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-10 Thread Len Brown
a1a1bba68c > > Parent: 908e0a8a265fe8057604a9a30aec3f0be7bb5ebb > > Author: Kristen Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > AuthorDate: Fri Mar 9 18:15:33 2007 -0500 > > Committer: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CommitDate: Fri Mar 9 18:15:33 2007 -0500 &g

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Alan has been actively working on PATA ACPI, and we have been debugging > ACPI issues as well. PLEASE coordinate with the maintainer, when > touching code outside of drivers/acpi! ap->cbl is not a reliable way to tell SATA from PATA at the moment. We need to fix the real crashes too - right n

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AuthorDate: Fri Mar 9 18:15:33 2007 -0500 Committer: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CommitDate: Fri Mar 9 18:15:33 2007 -0500 libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now The ACPI specification states, and BIOS implementatio