Re: sata_promise driver and 2.6.11 on a MIPS board

[Jeff Garzik]

Jim Ramsay wrote:
> The driver then waits via a wait_for_completion apparently waiting for
> the PCI card to throw an interrupt so it can continue.  However, I
> never see this interrupt generated, and the driver code waits forever.


This is a known bug that definitely needs fixing:

(to ATA developers)
Any time an ATA command is issued outside of the SCSI layer, we need to 
employ a timer to time out commands.

Since most commands are done within the SCSI layer, which provides a lot 
of error handling apparatus, most commands properly time out.  The ones 
during probe - IDENTIFY DEVICE, set xfer mode, etc. - do not have such a 
timer.

	Jeff


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