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SubjectRe: patch sata_nv-disable-hardreset-for-generic.patch added to 2.6.26-stable tree
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 06:27:03PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2008, gregkh@suse.de wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> >
> > Subject: sata_nv: disable hardreset for generic
> >
> > to the 2.6.26-stable tree. Its filename is
> >
> > sata_nv-disable-hardreset-for-generic.patch
> >
> > A git repo of this tree can be found at
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> >
> > From 2fd673ecf0378ddeeeb87b3605e50212e0c0ddc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:13:12 +0200
> > Subject: sata_nv: disable hardreset for generic
> >
> > From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> >
> > commit 2fd673ecf0378ddeeeb87b3605e50212e0c0ddc6 upstream
> >
> > of them being unifying probing, hotplug and EH reset paths uniform.
> > Previously, broken hardreset could go unnoticed as it wasn't used
> > during probing but when something goes wrong or after hotplug the
> > problem will surface and bite hard.
> >
> > OSDL bug 11195 reports that sata_nv generic flavor falls into this
> > category. Hardreset itself succeeds but PHY stays offline after
> > hardreset. I tried longer debounce timing but the result was the
> > same.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11195
> >
> > So, it seems we'll have to drop hardreset from the generic flavor.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> On 2.6.26.5 + the pending stable queue applied, this patch results in lots
> of noise in my syslog (full gzipped dmesg with and without this patch
> attached):

This patch has been removed from the stable queue, so it shouldn't be an
issue anymore, right?

thanks,

greg k-h


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