Re: Silent corruption on AMD64

2007-04-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Aaron Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [adding netdev] [meta-comment: I wish people wouldn't use such unnecessarily broad subjects -- how is it the x86-64 port's or AMD's fault when you have broken hardware? Would anybody write Silent corruption on i386 or Silent corruption on Intel or Silent

Re: [RFD driver-core] Lifetime problems of the current driver model

2007-04-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, James, Greg. On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:19:34PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: That's sort of what I was reaching for too ... it just looks to me that all the sysfs glue is in kobject, so they make a good candidate for the pure sysfs objects. Whatever we do, there has to be breakable

[PATCH 0/4] libata: Workaround/fixes for ATAPI devices (take 3)

2007-04-01 Thread Albert Lee
patch 1/4: Reorder HSM_ST_FIRST patch 2/4: Clear tf before doing request sense patch 3/4: Limit max sector to 128 for TORiSAN DVD drives patch 4/4: Limit ATAPI DMA to R/W commands only for TORiSAN DVD drives (patch 2/4 revised per Tejun's advice.) (patch 3/4 revised per Vlad's new test result.)

[PATCH 1/4] libata: reorder HSM_ST_FIRST for easier decoding (take 3)

2007-04-01 Thread Albert Lee
patch 1/4: Reorder HSM_ST_FIRST, such that the task state transition is easier decoded with human eyes. Signed-off-by: Albert Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Patch against libata-dev tree, for your review, thanks. diff -Nrup 00_libata-dev.ori/include/linux/libata.h 01_hsm_st/include/linux/libata.h

[PATCH 2/4] libata: Clear tf before doing request sense (take 3)

2007-04-01 Thread Albert Lee
patch 2/4: Clear tf before doing request sense. This fixes the AOpen 56X/AKH timeout problem. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8244) Signed-off-by: Albert Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Per Tejun's advice to use result_tf instead. Patch against libata-dev tree, for your review, thanks.

[PATCH 3/4] libata: Limit max sector to 128 for TORiSAN DVD drives (take 3)

2007-04-01 Thread Albert Lee
patch 3/4: The TORiSAN drive locks up when max sector == 256. Limit max sector to 128 for the TORiSAN DRD-N216 drives. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6710) Signed-off-by: Albert Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Revised to use max sector = 128 per Vlad's new test result. Patch against