On Saturday 08 September 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
> Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>
> > The patch was 4/4 of course. :-<
> > Probably I was too esctatic about the code. ;-)
>
> Or rarher me. :-)
>
> >> The Marvell bridge chips used on HighPoint SATA cards do not seem to
> >> support
> >> the MWDMA modes (at least that caould be seen in their so-called
> >> drivers :-),
> >> so the driver needs to account for this -- to achieve this:
>
> >> - add mdma_filter() method from the original patch by Bartlomiej
> >> Zolnierkewicz
> >> with his consent, also adding the method callout to ide_rate_filter();
>
> >> - installed the method for all chips to only return empty mask if a
> >> SATA drive
> >> is detected onHPT372{AN]/374 chips...
>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[email protected]>
I pushed all your bugfix patches that were in IDE tree to Linus so
(after "the pull") please resync and resend the outstanding patches.
> >> ---
> >> This patch against the current Linus' tree and unfortunately I was
> >> able to only
> >> compile test it since that tree gives MODPOST warning and dies early
> >> on bootup.
> >> Will hopefully try to test if/when I have time... :-)
>
> And it was still the same -- I'd bisected if I had time...
:(
> >> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
> >> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
> >> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> >> /*
> >> - * linux/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c Version 1.12 Aug 25, 2007
> >> + * linux/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c Version 1.13 Aug 22, 2007
>
> > Errr... and version shuold Aug 02 -- thought I've fixed that. :-/
>
> Hehe, thanks. Those versions turned to be quite PITA a to keep.
I think we should get rid of these "old-style" versions and convert
all IDE host drivers to use "new-style" versions (DRV_VERSION define
+ MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION)). Any volunteers? :)
Thanks,
Bart
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