Re: sata_promise: Keeps saying SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:46:02PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:06:37PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > Sorry, I dropped the ball on that one. (Too many projects requiring
> >  > my attention.) I think the safest solution is to just disable hotplug
> >  > interrupts on SATA1 chips. I'll give that a try in 2-3 days (busy with
> >  > other stuff).
> > 
> > Some 1st generation Promise SATA chips generate spurious hotplug events
> > which can disrupt normal operation. This has been observed on 20376 and
> > 20378 chips. This patch thus disables hotplug support on 1st gen chips
> > while leaving it enabled for 2nd gen chips.
> > 
> > Tested on a 2nd gen SATA300 PCI card and a 1st gen 20378 mainboard chip.
> > 
> > Kurt, does this work for your 20376?
> 
> Yes, works perfectly.

Hi,

Is there some problem with the patch, or any other reason it
hasn't been applied in Linus's tree?


Kurt

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