There is a miniscule chance that two separate host controllers might be in sata_mv at the same time and manage to decrement the static limit_warnings variable below zero. Fix the comparison to deal with it. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> --- (blush) How did I miss that ??? --- old/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2008-06-17 19:22:15.000000000 -0400 +++ linux//drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2008-06-18 21:52:19.000000000 -0400 @@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ * Much of the time, this could just work regardless. * So for now, just log the incident, and allow the attempt. */ - if (limit_warnings && (qc->nbytes / qc->sect_size) > 1) { + if (limit_warnings > 0 && (qc->nbytes / qc->sect_size) > 1) { --limit_warnings; ata_link_printk(qc->dev->link, KERN_WARNING, DRV_NAME ": attempting PIO w/multiple DRQ: " -- 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