Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:28:10 -0400 | From | Jon Masters <> | Subject | Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: >> Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> >>> If you try to load both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver >>> (for the same ATI SB600 adapter), very strange things happen. >>> The AHCI driver churns for three minutes or so, spewing >>> messages like this, then nothing works: >>> >>> <6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) >>> <4>ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) >>> <4>ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x104) >>> Shouldn't it be able to tell the device has already been >>> claimed by some other driver? >> One would assume it'd fail to grab the PCI IO ranges twice? I haven't >> looked at the code but I have seen this bug mentioned elsewhere so I >> might well end up having to do that yet :-) > > Dunno much about sb600 but ahci and pata_atiixp are probably using > separate IO regions && separate PCI functions.
Yeah. I actually thought about this whole issue a bit more recently - things like SATA/PATA interference when you've got a part that emulates legacy functionality so can appear as two different kinds of device - since I don't think my brain was really bothering to listen before. Words were going in, but it chose to ignore what was being said.
Only thing that comes to mind is in-driver logic/driver loading ordering hack combinations. At least if you've got loadable modules, you've got a fighting chance of fixing this kind of situation - built-in and you need to fight with whatever ordering exists in the array of init functions.
Jon.
P.S. Guess this means I need to admit I was wrong and apologize to Zaitcev sometime too in relation to another discussion...bah :P
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