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

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

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 solve

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 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? I

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

2007-03-10 Thread Len Brown
On Saturday 10 March 2007 06:30, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > Gitweb: > > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c > > Commit: df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c > > Parent:

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

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

2007-03-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c Commit: df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c Parent: 908e0a8a265fe8057604a9a30aec3f0be7bb5ebb Author: Kristen

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

2007-03-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c Commit: df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c Parent: 908e0a8a265fe8057604a9a30aec3f0be7bb5ebb Author: Kristen

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 now

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

2007-03-10 Thread Len Brown
On Saturday 10 March 2007 06:30, Jeff Garzik wrote: Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c Commit: df33c77e3981e71afc8727ee5c432ba1a1bba68c Parent: