Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:27:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:55:51 -0800 (PST) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me just say - I'm astonished at how little spam gets though the vger lists. Considering how many times those

Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

2007-11-14 Thread Patric Karlsson
I Stratford wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 4:01 AM, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Pettersson wrote: First, a workaround for a HW erratum affecting 2nd-generation chips like the SATA300 TX4 was included in kernel 2.6.24-rc2. ... Alright, if it's fixable, no problem. I just wanted to

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:32:01 -0800 On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:18:01 + Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find some other mailing list; I'm not hosting *nor* am I willing to run a

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:55:07 + On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote: I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] By doing so you've just said (implicitly) that you can not tolerate someone having a different opinion from your own. I

Re: [PATCH 9/18] ide: kill duplicate code in ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_status()

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Move the common code from ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_status() to ide_dump_status(). * ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_status() - ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_error(). There should be no functionality changes caused by this patch. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not subscriber-only. Same as that arm list, it's _moderated_ for non-subscribers and given that I and other moderators have been doing our best to moderate quickly (I tend to stay logged in to

Re: 2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
[Sorry to reply to my own email thread] Srihari Vijayaraghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. Basically it goes on reseting the SATA ports throwing many errors (none are present in 2.6.23 or on 2.6.24-rc with mem=3500M) for

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received at least 10 of the following over the past 2 days. That's rediculious. And because a human adds the

Re: Moderated list (Was: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 09:25, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:01:31 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received at

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: HID Kernel NULL pointer dereference at :usbhid:hiddev_ioctl+0x2f/0xabc http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9216 Kernel: 2.6.23.1 Looks like this is a regression No

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 12:56, David Miller wrote: From: Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not subscriber-only. Same as that arm list, it's _moderated_ for non-subscribers and given that I and other moderators have been doing our best to moderate

Moderated list (Was: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

2007-11-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:01:31 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received at least 10 of the following over

Re: 2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:55, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: [Sorry to reply to my own email thread] Srihari Vijayaraghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. Basically it goes on reseting the SATA ports throwing many

Re: [PATCH 1/2] libata: workaround DRQ=1 ERR=1 for ATAPI tape drives

2007-11-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:13:05 +0800 Albert Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After an error condition, some ATAPI tape drives set DRQ=1 together with ERR=1 when asking the host to transfer the CDB of the next packet command (i.e. request sense). This patch, a revised version of Alan/Mark's

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then. And mind you, the patch is not trying to do anything complex, it mostly moves code around, removes

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 13:01, David Miller wrote: From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received at least 10 of the following over the past 2 days. Nah, in

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Suspend to RAM resume hangs on a tickless (NO_HZ) kernel http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9275 Kernel: 2.6.23 This is HP notebook nc6320 T2400 945GM No response from developers Maybe I'm optimistic, but I expected Ingo/Thomas to look after nohz problems. nohz=off

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the separate netdev list is a bad idea - networking regressions should be discussed and fixed on lkml, like most other

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6 directory. .. Ah, I wondered why

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Larry Finger
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6 directory. ..

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ide: fix serverworks.c UDMA regression

2007-11-14 Thread Tony Battersby
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:25:41PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Monday 15 October 2007, Tony Battersby wrote: The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.22 makes it impossible to use UDMA on a Tyan S2707 motherboard (SvrWks CSB5):

Re: [PATCH 4/13] cy82c693: correct DMA modes clipping

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Mask device DMA masks by ATA_{S,M}WDMA2 in cy82c693_ide_dma_on(). * Remove clipping of DMA modes by id-tDMA in cy82c693_dma_enable(): - id-tDMA may not be defined on newer devices - id-vendor6/id-tDMA word is in LE endianness (cy82c693 seems to be

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: edma_err 0x0084, EDMA self-disable .. Translation: The

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Mark Lord schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: edma_err 0x0084, EDMA self-disable

Re: [PATCH 9/13] ide: remove -ide_dma_on and -dma_off_quietly methods from ide_hwif_t

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Make ide_dma_off_quietly() and __ide_dma_on() always available. * Drop __ prefix from __ide_dma_on(). * Check for presence of -dma_host_on instead of -ide_dma_on. * Convert all users of -ide_dma_on and -dma_off_quietly methods to use ide_dma_on()

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Mark Lord schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: edma_err

Re: 2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Andi Kleen
The AHCI code falls back to 32bit DMA in that case. Which in turn causes the problem seen by Srihari. There is not much printk sticking necessary, the code is simply not handling this. What code is not handling what? IOMMU merging should be always safe. If it is not the driver should not

Re: 2.6.24-rc SB600 AHCI no go on =4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:55, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: [Sorry to reply to my own email thread] Srihari Vijayaraghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. Basically it

Re: [PATCH 13/13] ide: merge -dma_host_{on,off} methods into -dma_host_set method

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Merge -dma_host_{on,off} methods into -dma_host_set method which takes 'int on' argument. There should be no functionality changes caused by this patch. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the separate netdev list is a bad idea - networking

[PATCH] libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Sebastian Kemper reported that issuing CD/DVD commands under libata is not fully compatible with ide-scsi. In particular, the GPCMD_SET_STREAMING was being rejected at the host level in some instances. The reason is that libata-scsi insists upon the cmd_len field exactly matching the SCSI

2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
All, I apologize if this has been discussed - but I haven't been able to find exactly what I am looking for in the discussions the last few weeks... I am running Linux 2.6.23.1 and have a 7042 SATA driver running (that seems to run very well) - it has the fixes talked about between Jeff Olaf

Re: [PATCH] libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

2007-11-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:44:23PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: Sebastian Kemper reported that issuing CD/DVD commands under libata is not fully compatible with ide-scsi. In particular, the GPCMD_SET_STREAMING was being rejected at the host level in some instances. The reason is that

RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
-Original Message- From: Mark Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57 PM To: Morrison, Tom Cc: Jeff Garzik; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Morrison, Tom wrote: snip

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: .. ::: Can you give me exact details of how to set up and reproduce this? ::: -- Kernel version Linux-2.6.23.1 NOTE: I am using ppc (arch/ppc instead of arch/powerpc) .. Okay. Is that 32-bit or 64-bit? How much RAM ? My PPC machine is not currently

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57 PM To: Morrison, Tom Cc: Jeff Garzik; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Allen Martin wrote: .. Errata for which there is an SBIOS workaround are generally only released to BIOS vendors and under NDA. If Linux users were impacted by such a bug we would most likely release a patch, but a much more likely .. All of that silly secrecy harms your company and your

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:07:06AM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:55:07 + On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote: I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] By doing so you've just said (implicitly) that you can

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all on lkml we'd all be aware of it. That's a rediculious argument. One

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:56 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all on lkml we'd

RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
OK: 32-bit linux - Large Physical Memory / Large PTE (CONFIG_PTE_64BIT CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT) 4 Gig of DDR RAM Here is the lspci -vv -bash-2.05b# lspci -vv 00:00.0 Power PC: Unknown device 1957:0012 (rev 20) !!! Invalid class 0b20 for header type 01

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: * Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:16:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: countered by the underlined sentences above, just in case you missed it. I didn't miss your claim. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:16:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: countered by the underlined sentences above, just in case you missed it. I didn't miss your claim. ok, then you conceded it by not replying to it? good ;-) Ingo - To unsubscribe

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all on lkml we'd all be aware

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:56 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev some of those bugs were already

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread david
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Dumping even more crap on lkml is not the answer. that crap that i'd like to see dumped upon lkml would be netdev traffic mainly - most of the other kernel development lists (and i'm subscribed to many of them) are low-traffic. netdev is the main reason

RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
I have gotten it to boot from those hard-drives and it has the same behavior: Copying a large file to the same partition (150MEG) causes the system to hang (no I/O - no input/output - nothing - complete freeze - like a primary resource is locked up or

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
hi Matthew, On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote: Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then. And

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Gabriel C
Denys Vlasenko wrote: hi Matthew, On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote: Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:37:37 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: ok, then you conceded it by not replying to it? good ;-) No, I don't intend to carry on this discussion, but I appreciate the smiley. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9373] New: PDC20267 exception Emask on I/O

2007-11-14 Thread Bjoern Olausson
On 11/14/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:11:25 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9373 Summary: PDC20267 exception Emask on I/O Product: IO/Storage Version: 2.5

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: I have gotten it to boot from those hard-drives and it has the same behavior: Copying a large file to the same partition (150MEG) causes the system to hang (no I/O - no input/output - nothing - complete freeze - like a primary resource is locked up or

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: There are two parts to this. One is a Ubuntu development kernel which we can give to large numbers of people to expand our testing pool. But if we don't do a better job of responding to bug reports that would be generated by expanded testing this

Re: [PATCH 1/2] libata: workaround DRQ=1 ERR=1 for ATAPI tape drives

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Albert Lee wrote: After an error condition, some ATAPI tape drives set DRQ=1 together with ERR=1 when asking the host to transfer the CDB of the next packet command (i.e. request sense). This patch, a revised version of Alan/Mark's previous patch, adds ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR to workaround

Re: [PATCH 2/2] libata: use ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR for ATAPI tape drives

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Albert Lee wrote: Per Mark's comments, maybe all ATAPI tape drives need ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR. This patch applys ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR for all ATAPI tape drives. Signed-off-by: Albert Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied to #tj-upstream-fixes. -- tejun - To

Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
I Stratford wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 4:01 AM, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Pettersson wrote: First, a workaround for a HW erratum affecting 2nd-generation chips like the SATA300 TX4 was included in kernel 2.6.24-rc2. ... Alright, if it's fixable, no problem. I just wanted to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Robert Hancock wrote: We need to run any DMA command with result taskfile requested in ADMA mode when the port is in ADMA mode, otherwise it may try to use the legacy DMA engine in ADMA mode which is not allowed. Enforce this with BUG_ON() since data corruption could potentially

Re: [PATCH 1/2] sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Tejun Heo wrote: If so, can you please add that switching into register mode is okay as long as there's no other ADMA commands in flight and add WARN_ON((qc-flags ATA_QCFLAG_RESULT_TF) link-sactive)? More accurately, link-sactive test can be substituted with (ap-qc_allocated ~(1 qc-tag)).

Re: [PATCH] libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: Sebastian Kemper reported that issuing CD/DVD commands under libata is not fully compatible with ide-scsi. In particular, the GPCMD_SET_STREAMING was being rejected at the host level in some instances. The reason is that libata-scsi insists upon the cmd_len field exactly

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday November 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2007 07:08, Mark Lord wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: .. This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_, it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for years, in favor of

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that information down

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Is there an online Kernelish-English dictionary anywhere? ;) .. Unfortunately not. At some point, we *really* need to convice {Tejun,Jeff} that libata messages should be simpler, fewer, and more human readable by default, with perhaps a sysfs

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get allocated

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Robert Hancock wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Is there an online Kernelish-English dictionary anywhere? ;) .. Unfortunately not. At some point, we *really* need to convice {Tejun,Jeff} that libata messages should be simpler, fewer, and more human readable by default, with

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: * marvell ones: I don't have much idea. Jeff? Mark? .. Right now, support is rather primitive and incomplete in sata_mv. That may change over the next few months, as Marvell is beginning to show some desire to have their chips fully supported, to/beyond the current levels

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:24PM +0100, Rene Herman wrote: On 14-11-07 11:07, David Miller wrote: Added Jaroslav and Takashi to the already extensive CC From: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, when are you creating a replacement alsa-devel mailing list on vger? That's also

Re: Moderated list

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 15-11-07 00:23, David Miller wrote: From: Takashi Iwai [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW, I also prefer keeping the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's been so. That's fine with me, I've changed it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great, thanks. Jaroslav -- given that this list won't need moderation I'd consider it

[patch 14/40] libata: sync NCQ blacklist with upstream

2007-11-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Synchronize NCQ blacklist with the current upstream. Based on changes already in Linus's 2.6.24-rc kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff

[patch 37/40] libata: backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA

2007-11-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. Backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA. These are originally link flags (ATA_LFLAG_*) but

[patch 38/40] libata: backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA, part 2

2007-11-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. P5W-DH Deluxe has ICH7R which doesn't have PMP support but SIMG 4726 hardwired to the second port of AHCI

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Thanks for the excellent rundown. sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to translate this known-good chipset to an actual buyable PCI card. It