On Sunday, 9 of December 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object > >> Submitter : Hans de Bruin <bruinjm@xxxxxxxxx> > >> References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320 > >> Handled-By : Robert Moore <Robert.Moore@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Fu Michael <michael.fu@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Patch : > >> > > > > A number of other people are seeing the same thing and Tejun is > > putting in a blacklist of machines which cannot use libata+acpi. > > That patch is not yet in any git tree which I pull. > > > > AFACIT the machines kepe working OK - there's just some nasty dmesg > > spew. > > > > If any machines _are_ breaking then this could cause real problems > > and I'd prefer that we either go for a whitelist or arrange to > > detect the condition and fall back to non-acpi ata. > > The pending patchset should make ATA ACPI quite resistant to failures. Are you going to push it for 2.6.24? > Known bad boards can be blacklisted (currently only one is on the > list), ATA ACPI is disabled quicker if ACPI evalution fails, execution > errors are handled better and commands which are intended to help the > vendor instead of the user are filtered. So, I think we have enough > safety nets. Sounds good. :-) Thanks, Rafael - 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
