Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Oct 28 2007 - 19:08:45 EST


On Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Subject : 2.6.24-rc1: pata_acpi fails to activate DMA for DVD-ROM on ALi M5229 secondary channel
> > Submitter : Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx>
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119342005216716&w=2
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9252
> > Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 2.6.23 did not have pata_acpi. Its also not clear this is a bug in
> pata_acpi as opposed to pata_ali which knows about the ALi quirks. The
> ACPI and ATA specs sort of disagree here so I'll be trying to fix it
> anyway.

OK, but please let me keep that on the list. It may cause some people to
experience problems that were not present before functionality-wise.
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