On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:53:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > With Linus's current -git tree (like 2.6.17-git13), it takes a long time > > to boot my laptop. Turns out the SATA cdrom discovery process is taking > > up many seconds. > > Was any previous version okay? No timeout messages on boot? 2.6.17 and previous was just fine, no timeout messages that I remember (definatly no slowdown on boot.) I can do a git bisect tomorrow to try to narrow it down to the single changeset if you want me to. > > This laptop does not have a SATA hard drive, only a SATA cdrom drive. > > I've included the boot log below and trimmed it after the delay > > happened, as I doubt anything after it would be relevant. > > > > Is there any patch I can test to help fix this? > > This seems to be the ghost device problem which occurs when the first > device is ATAPI but the second slot is empty. > > > My .config is also attached, if that helps any. > > Please try the following patch. Ok, will do. thanks, greg k-h - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
