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SubjectRe: 2.6.27.6 question: ata_sff_hsm_move: ata15 (why always ata15)?
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:14:01 +0900
> Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:22:58 -0600
>>> Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to find out what the root cause of this error/problem is:
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462425
>>>> The problem is that people assume that timeouts with DRDY like that bug
>>>> refers to must be the same problem when it is often not
>>> The first stopping point is to apply the DRQ drain patch I sent to the
>>> list some time ago and is hopefully lined up for 2.6.29. After that point
>>> you can begin to look at the remaining cases, until then its hardly worth
>>> it.
>> Is it really? For many SATA controllers, DRQ draining isn't really
>> necessary. PATA might be a completely different story tho.
>
> It seems to be needed for various devices and some controllers. Given we
> don't know which it seems to be the sensible starting point for almost any
> failure involving a DRQ being left on. It won't fix them all but it is
> the one case that can easily be eliminated.
..

Well ata_piix for starters. Verified here by me.

Cheers


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