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

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Oct 02 2009 - 01:20:42 EST


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?

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tejun
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