On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:49:06AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >There are a bunch of small patches in the early 2.6 version which look
> >like bugfixes, but with non-descriptive comments, so I'm not sure what
> >they fix. Several of them would apply to 2.4, but I don't want to touch
> >this area as long as nobody complains about problems.
>
> Oh there are tons of SATA bug fixes that 2.4.x is missing. One of the
> biggest is the completely crappy exception handling. If a SATA device
> is unplugged or spazzes out, the system may or may not recover.
Already encountered on sata_nv in a sun x2100 :-)
Jeff, I did not want to blindly merge patches from 2.6 to 2.4, but if
you point me to a few ones you consider important, I'm willing to merge
them.
Regards,
Willy
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