Re: patch sata_nv-disable-hardreset-for-generic.patch added to2.6.26-stable tree

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 06:27:03PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2008, gregkh@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> > 
> >     Subject: sata_nv: disable hardreset for generic
> > 
> > to the 2.6.26-stable tree.  Its filename is
> > 
> >     sata_nv-disable-hardreset-for-generic.patch
> > 
> > A git repo of this tree can be found at 
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > 
> > From 2fd673ecf0378ddeeeb87b3605e50212e0c0ddc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:13:12 +0200
> > Subject: sata_nv: disable hardreset for generic
> > 
> > From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit 2fd673ecf0378ddeeeb87b3605e50212e0c0ddc6 upstream
> > 
> > of them being unifying probing, hotplug and EH reset paths uniform.
> > Previously, broken hardreset could go unnoticed as it wasn't used
> > during probing but when something goes wrong or after hotplug the
> > problem will surface and bite hard.
> > 
> > OSDL bug 11195 reports that sata_nv generic flavor falls into this
> > category.  Hardreset itself succeeds but PHY stays offline after
> > hardreset.  I tried longer debounce timing but the result was the
> > same.
> > 
> >   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11195
> > 
> > So, it seems we'll have to drop hardreset from the generic flavor.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peer Chen <pchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> 
> On 2.6.26.5 + the pending stable queue applied, this patch results in lots 
> of noise in my syslog (full gzipped dmesg with and without this patch 
> attached):

This patch has been removed from the stable queue, so it shouldn't be an
issue anymore, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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