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DateFri, 30 Jan 2009 19:11:23 -0800
FromGreg KH <>
SubjectRe: [stable] For -stable: sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:57:47PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> commit b0bccb18bc523d1d5060d25958f12438062829a9
> Author: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
> Date:   Mon Jan 19 18:04:37 2009 -0500
> 
>     sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips
> 
>     Fix a longstanding bug for the 8-port Marvell Sata controllers (508x/6081),
>     where accesses to the upper 4 ports would cause lost-interrupts / timeouts
>     for the lower 4-ports.  With this patch, the 6081 boards should finally be
>     reliable enough for mainstream use with Linux.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> This should be backported to all -stable kernels.

Thanks, I'll queue this up for the next releases after these come out.

greg k-h


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