Re: [PATCH] take 4 Re: VIA IRQ quirk, another (embarrassing) suggestion.

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 11:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:33 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:54:07PM +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I don't know if this is a real question. Have we VIA products on PCI
> > > > > card, running on not VIA chip sets ?
> > > > Yes.  Certainly for on-board devices too.
> > > OK , other argument.
> > > We have billions of VIA chip sets with VIA PCI on-board and 
> > > VIA PCI on others chip sets, if exists, are a very few.
> > > So, because some exceptions, we shouldn't stop a resolution of a very
> > > large % of the cases. 
> > No thanks.  As VIA SATA maintainer, I like being able to use my VIA SATA 
> > PCI card.
> >
> > 	Jeff
>
> I have 2 computer with 2 different Asrock
> (http://www.asrock.com/product/775Dual-880Pro.htm) boards, both have a
> VIA8237 and a VIA SATA, and both are quirked wrongly, when I use kernels
> 2.6.17+ . 
> And if I haven't bought this 2 computers in a supermarket, I won't be
> here discussion this subjects.
>
> So I like to remember  
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/28/264
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/4/111 ( that confirm a VIA SATA on XT-PIC
> mode ) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/1/106 )
>
> So VIA SATA needs my patch or Daniel Drake patch to _WORK_ .

No argument.

I'm just saying that you cannot avoid the VIA-device-not-on-VIA-chipset 
case.  I don't care which patch is used, as long as _both_ cases work.

	Jeff



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