linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: hd don't show up

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Date:	Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:30:21 +0200
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc5 regression: hd don't show up

On 10/02/2009 07:20 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Can you please try the attached patch and report the result?  The bug
>>>>>>>>> shouldn't happen now and for cases where it would have happened,
>>>>>>>>> libata will report "link online but device misclassified" and retry.
>>>>>>>> this patch cannot be applied onto stable-2.6.31/master ... e.g. the
>>>>>>>> first chunk is already in there ....
>>>>>>> Eh... the first chunk was for the current devel branch.  Here's a
>>>>>>> version without that one.
>>>>>> Ping.
>>>>> i haven't run into any further issues with this patch ... so i somehow
>>>>> guess, it solved the problem ...
>>>> In your boot logs, do you ever see messages like "link online but
>>>> device misclassified, retrying"?
>>> i didn't really pay attention to it ... at my currently running system,
>>> it doesn't show up ... but i will keep my eyes open ...
>>
>> Can you please reboot several times and see whether that happens?  The
>> bug is quite obscure and I wanna be sure before pushing it upstream.
> 
> Ping?

since i have this kernel running, i didn't see any of these messages,
still, my hds always showed up ...
not sure, if this is related to your patch or if the buggy behavior,
just didn't occur ...

tim

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