Mark Paulus wrote: > Well, I feel foolish. > One problem is that the prebuilt kernel is using an initrd > image, so I made your patch changes, and put them into > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil.ko, > and guess what, they never got loaded. Foolishness on my > part. > > Anyway, this time I got to the single boot prompt, where I did > a 'rmmod sata_sil', and a 'modprobe sata_sil', and I know > it loaded the new version, because you can see the 'sata_sil > 0000:02:0b.0: version 2.2b', which I put in > to verify what the heck is going on. > This machine is pretty slow to compile the kernel, which is > why I was trying to short cut the build/install some, but I might try to > build the kernel on a faster machine and see if > I can get the initrd image rebuilt also. This one is good enough, thanks. It seems the controller is raising spurious SATA_IRQ. I wonder why. You're using a SATA-PATA bridge, right? What chip are you using? -- tejun - 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
