Re: [PATCH 0/12] ide-floppy redux v2.5

2008-01-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:38:17PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: By the way, I have an Iomega ZIP 100 drive somewhere in my hardware pile and will do some testing with the new :) driver just in case. This would be great. :) Hi Bart, i just whipped rc8 along with your pata-2.6

Re: The SX4 challenge

2008-01-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Jeff Garzik writes: Promise just gave permission to post the docs for their PDC20621 (i.e. SX4) hardware: http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/promise/pdc20621-pguide-1.2.pdf.bz2 joining the existing PDC20621 DIMM and PLL docs:

[PATCH 1/5] printk: keep log level on multiline messages

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
When printing multiline messages, printk() resets log level to default_message_loglevel after the first line. This changes log level unexpectedly when printing multiline messages. For example, libata error messages are printed like the following. 3ata8.00: cmd

[PATCH 3/5] printk: implement merging printk

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
There often are times printk messages need to be assembled piece by piece and it's usually done using one of the following methods. * Calling printk() on partial message segments. This used to be quite common but has a problem - the message can break up if someone else prints something in

[PATCH 2/5] printk: implement [v]printk_header()

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Implement [v]printk_header() which takes @header argument and automatically prints header in front of or indents multiline messages. For example, if @header is 7ata1.00: and the formatted message is 6line0\nline1\n, the following gets written to the console. 6ata1.00: line0 6 line1

[PATCH 4/5] printk: add Documentation/printk.txt

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Add Documentation/printk.txt which explains printk, mprintk and their friends. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/00-INDEX |2 + Documentation/printk.txt | 711 ++ 2 files changed, 713 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

[PATCH 5/5] libata: make libata use printk_header() and mprintk

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Reimplement libata printk helpers using printk_header, implement helpers to initialize mprintk and use mprintk during device configuration and EH reporting. This fixes various formatting related problems of libata messages such as misaligned multiline messages, decoded register lines with leading

[PATCHSET] printk: implement printk_header() and merging printk, take #2

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, all. This is the second take of implement-printk_header-and-mprintk patchset. Changes from the last take[L] are... * s/mprintk_push/mprintk_add/ and other changes suggested by Randy Dunlap. * mp-buf instead of mp-header to ease freeing kmalloc'd buffer later. * mprintk

Re: ATA device reset, shoud I be concerned?

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:90:ca:ce/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in [ 9031.028000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) We got bored

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [libata] sata_mv: Remove PCI dependency

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: saeed bishara wrote: -if (unlikely(irq_stat PCI_ERR)) { +if (unlikely(irq_stat PCI_ERR) HAS_PCI(host)) { mv_pci_error(host, mmio); handled = 1; goto out_unlock;/* skip all other HC irq handling */ the unlikely() should cover the

Re: SATA CDDVDRW and kernel 2.6.23.12 problems

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Paul Surgeon wrote: I keep getting the following error messages during bootup with kernel 2.6.23.12 : scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROMTSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633A UO00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata3.00: