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SubjectRe: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 pata driver confusion + tsc sync issues
Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net> wrote:
>

(eek, top-posting!)

> 2.6.16-rc2 with the libata patch alan cox provided resulted in a system
> which correctly found my atapi drive on the pata bus.
>
> Also, moving from the mm kernels to 2.6.16-rc2 resulted in my pm timer
> working again.

I don't recall that. Even 2.6.16-rc1-mm5? What about rc1-mm4?

> So, it may have been all along that libata had supported my atapi
> device, but either the patch when it got merged with mm became broken or
> something else in mm broke it, and something else in mm caused my pm
> timer to stop being used.
>
> Hopefully more people chime in with issues like this so the bug can be
> tracked down in mm before the offending code makes it's way to a regular
> release.
>
>
> Also just to note, the patch to 2.6.16-rc2 alan cox made switches the
> load order of pata and sata from mm, resulting in device name changes.

That's bad.

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