Re: 2.6.5-rc3: cat /proc/ide/hpt366 kills disk on second channel

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Tuesday 06 of April 2004 22:01, John Stoffel wrote:
> Bart,
>
> You're patch does the trick, I can now do cat /proc/ide/hpt366 without
> any problems.  Time to re-sync my md mirror.
>
> I'll also pull this patch forward to 2.6.5 and make sure to submit it
> to Linus/Andrew, unless you'll do that part?

I'll take care of it. :)

> I do wish the cable detection stuff worked though... too bad about the

Cable detection works just fine, see init_hwif_hpt366().

> outb() stuff.  Maybe I can poke at it and figure out what kind of
> locking is required here to make this work right.  Would it need to be
> queued up as a regular HWIF command?  Can you tell I don't know what
> I'm talking about?  *grin*

regular HWIF command?  It can be fixed using REQ_SPECIAL special request
but I don't think it's worth the work - remove #ifdef/#endif DEBUG around
printk() in init_hwif_hpt366() if you need info about cable.

Thanks,
Bartlomiej

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