Re: [stable] For -stable: sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on508x/6081 chips

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 22:15:48 EST


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:57:47PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> commit b0bccb18bc523d1d5060d25958f12438062829a9
> Author: Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Jan 19 18:04:37 2009 -0500
>
> sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips
>
> Fix a longstanding bug for the 8-port Marvell Sata controllers (508x/6081),
> where accesses to the upper 4 ports would cause lost-interrupts / timeouts
> for the lower 4-ports. With this patch, the 6081 boards should finally be
> reliable enough for mainstream use with Linux.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> This should be backported to all -stable kernels.

Thanks, I'll queue this up for the next releases after these come out.

greg k-h
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