Re: [PATCH] HPT374 kernel panic - regression in 2.6.8

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Mon Aug 16 2004 - 17:34:55 EST


On Saturday 14 August 2004 17:16, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2004-08-14 at 12:14, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > HighPoint 374 driver in 2.6.8 can cause kernel panic on boot with
> > non-33MHz timings because some lines from an older version have been
> > included in the source again. After removing the check, HPT374 works
> > just fine using internal PLL.
>
> The HPT374 only supports 33Mhz timings. If you are overclocking it then
> its probably going to mostly work. The lines added are not "from an
> older source file" but form a port forwards of long missing and
> important fixes from 2.4 that have been there for a long long time.

2.4 driver also misses some fixes...

> So the first question is why does your late series HPT37x think its
> running at > 33Mhz ? Are you overclocking it ?

http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@40586b50zsHhQgPLGTlje7g_f5wGTw?nav=index.html|
src/|src/drivers|src/drivers/ide|src/drivers/ide/pci|
related/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c

please read bugzilla bugs mentioned in the changelong and fix this
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