[PATCH] powerpc: Fix ide-pmac sysfs entry
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon May 22 07:46:27 EST 2006
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 23:30 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:52:36PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > Actually I have one of these, and regularly use it and update
> > > the kernel to the latest git once or twice per month, but I
> > > typically have two batteries and have not swapped in the
> > > media bay under Linux for a long time.
> > >
> > > If you are interested, I could test the patch when I find
> > > some time (not today: my 8 year old son went to the hospital
> > > for an emergency last Thursday, he is cured now and should
> > > come out today).
> >
> > Any test is welcome, glad to know your son is well !
>
> The one liner works here, I can no more solidly hang
> the machine. There is still a bunch of error messages
> on drive removal though:
Yes, I noticed those. Looks like the IDE driver is trying to much around
with the drive when unregistered. In our case, it's not a very good idea
as we unregister it after we detect it's been physically removed :)
Seems harmless so far though.
Ben.
> mediabay0: switching to 7
> mediabay0: powering down
> media bay 0 is empty
> Unregistering mb 0 ide, index:2
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: DMA disabled
> hde: ATAPI reset complete
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: ATAPI reset complete
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: ATAPI reset complete
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hde: ATAPI reset complete
> hde: status error: status=0x00 { }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> mediabay0: end of power down
>
> On insertion there are also a few messages
> but they seem normal:
>
> mediabay0: switching to 3
> mediabay0: powering up
> mediabay0: enabling (kind:3)
> mediabay0: waiting reset (kind:3)
> mediabay0: waiting IDE reset (kind:3)
> mediabay0: waiting IDE ready (kind:3)
> mediabay 0, registering IDE...
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> hde: LG DVD-ROM DRN-8080B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hde: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> ide2 at 0xf1022000-0xf1022007,0xf1022160 on irq 20
> hde: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
> media-bay 0 is ide2
> mediabay 0 IDE ready
>
> Regards,
> Gabriel
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