Dear Rupjyoti Sarmah, In message <3b928476b2fffdcf0694e5436e8a482f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > I took the mainline kernel v2.6.35-rc3 and downloaded using the git > download link. > I created the patch on 6/24/2010 after doing a git pull. > > With the kernel tree on 6/24/2010 the driver compiled. I also tested the > functionality on the SATA drive & it worked. v2.6.35-rc3 was released on June 11, 13 days before 6/24/2010. Can you please give the exact git commit ID so I can try reproducing this? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face .... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods. -- Sargon, "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4768.3 -- 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