Vincent Legoll writes: > Hello, > > I tested libata-dev#promise-sata-pata branch, then I saw Mikael > Pettersson's patch, which kind of obsoleted the testing. > So I did libata-dev#upstream too. > > Nothig bad happened yet, after about 1h30 of test for each kernel. > bonnie++, dd, untar, mke[23]fs. Thanks for the testing. The non-breakage is expected though, since the new PATA patch really only affects the driver's interface with libata, and does not (should not) affect how it accesses the hardware. > The only diff for libata-dev#upstream boot: > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > Is this expected, harmless, or what ? Harmless. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: 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