linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc9-git4: pata_pcmcia, disabling IRQ #9 and Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

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Message-ID: <20080321112751.15b37f02@core>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:27:51 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@...izon.net>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@...earch.bell-labs.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc9-git4: pata_pcmcia, disabling IRQ #9 and Re: libata
 and legacy ide pcmcia failure

> It is entirely possible that some change triggered a BIOS(?) bug, or 
> even that a BIOS upgrade caused the breakage, of course.

Yes, and if your testing shows what I think it will then the bug can
instead become an ACPI bug and maybe Len and the ACPI folks can work
around it.
> 
> I'll try to try out the hardware in another Linux box - it may take a 
> while, as I have to find out who at work has liberated their machine 
> from corporate IT.  :-)

Thanks
Alan
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