On Monday 03 August 2009 03:25:18 Jack Byer wrote: > > > > Seems like there is also a bug in ali5451 sound driver.. > > > > This should help: [...] > Those patches do not appear to have worked: My bad, jiffies checks need to be reversed now (corrected patch attached).. Please also post output of dmidecode command -- we may try to workaround the issue by not using IRQ mode in pata_pcmcia for this particular system and resorting to libata's polling mode instead.. --- sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: b/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c =================================================================== --- a/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c +++ b/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c @@ -314,8 +314,11 @@ static int snd_ali_codec_ready(struct sn res = snd_ali_5451_peek(codec,port); if (!(res & 0x8000)) return 0; + if (!time_after_eq(end_time, jiffies)) + break; schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); - } while (time_after_eq(end_time, jiffies)); + } while (1); + snd_ali_5451_poke(codec, port, res & ~0x8000); snd_printdd("ali_codec_ready: codec is not ready.\n "); return -EIO; @@ -327,15 +330,17 @@ static int snd_ali_stimer_ready(struct s unsigned long dwChk1,dwChk2; dwChk1 = snd_ali_5451_peek(codec, ALI_STIMER); - dwChk2 = snd_ali_5451_peek(codec, ALI_STIMER); end_time = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(250); do { dwChk2 = snd_ali_5451_peek(codec, ALI_STIMER); if (dwChk2 != dwChk1) return 0; + if (!time_after_eq(end_time, jiffies)) + break; schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); - } while (time_after_eq(end_time, jiffies)); + } while (1); + snd_printk(KERN_ERR "ali_stimer_read: stimer is not ready.\n"); return -EIO; } -- 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