Re: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: hd don't show up

[Tejun Heo]

Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>>>>>> Can you please try the attached patch and report the result?  The bug
>>>>>>> shouldn't happen now and for cases where it would have happened,
>>>>>>> libata will report "link online but device misclassified" and retry.
>>>>>> this patch cannot be applied onto stable-2.6.31/master ... e.g. the
>>>>>> first chunk is already in there ....
>>>>> Eh... the first chunk was for the current devel branch.  Here's a
>>>>> version without that one.
>>>> Ping.
>>> i haven't run into any further issues with this patch ... so i somehow
>>> guess, it solved the problem ...
>> In your boot logs, do you ever see messages like "link online but
>> device misclassified, retrying"?
> 
> i didn't really pay attention to it ... at my currently running system,
> it doesn't show up ... but i will keep my eyes open ...

Can you please reboot several times and see whether that happens?  The
bug is quite obscure and I wanna be sure before pushing it upstream.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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