linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] take 4 Re: VIA IRQ quirk, another (embarrassing) suggestion.

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Message-ID: <44FE28CB.6070005@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:47:55 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org
CC:	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	bjorn.helgaas@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, greg@...ah.com,
	harmon@....edu, Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] take 4 Re: VIA IRQ quirk, another (embarrassing)	suggestion.

Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 11:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:33 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:54:07PM +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if this is a real question. Have we VIA products on PCI
>>>>> card, running on not VIA chip sets ?
>>>> Yes.  Certainly for on-board devices too.
>>> OK , other argument.
>>> We have billions of VIA chip sets with VIA PCI on-board and 
>>> VIA PCI on others chip sets, if exists, are a very few.
>>> So, because some exceptions, we shouldn't stop a resolution of a very
>>> large % of the cases. 
>> No thanks.  As VIA SATA maintainer, I like being able to use my VIA SATA 
>> PCI card.
>>
>> 	Jeff
> 
> I have 2 computer with 2 different Asrock
> (http://www.asrock.com/product/775Dual-880Pro.htm) boards, both have a
> VIA8237 and a VIA SATA, and both are quirked wrongly, when I use kernels
> 2.6.17+ . 
> And if I haven't bought this 2 computers in a supermarket, I won't be
> here discussion this subjects.
> 
> So I like to remember  
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/28/264
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/4/111 ( that confirm a VIA SATA on XT-PIC
> mode ) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/1/106 )
> 
> So VIA SATA needs my patch or Daniel Drake patch to _WORK_ .

No argument.

I'm just saying that you cannot avoid the VIA-device-not-on-VIA-chipset 
case.  I don't care which patch is used, as long as _both_ cases work.

	Jeff



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