> I've been bisecting that on Quad G5 (sata_svw): irq 18: nobody cared ...,
> then later endless ata1.00: exception..., blah blah, ata1: EH complete.
> It comes down to:
Thanks for finding that !
/me likes when he wakes up in the morning to find a G5 bug ... and the
fix in the same thread :-)
C
> And the patch I'm finding successful is below: I won't sign it off,
> for all I know it's reverting part of what Alan is trying to achieve;
> but I expect it'll help towards the right fix.
Its the right fix
ata_sff_check_altstatus() is a routine which does the altstatus
check and may o
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Another week, another batch of mostly pretty small fixes. Hopefully the
> > regression list is shrinking, and we've fixed at least a couple of the
> > oopses on Arjan's list.
>
> SATA on a dualcore G5 is broken
