atapicam broken by ata_lowlevel.c rev.1.23

[bremner at unb.ca]

At Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:07:30 -0600,
Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> In the last episode (Nov 27), Bruce Evans said:
> > [Resending due to no response after 2 weeks.]
> > 
> > Rev.1.23 of ata-lowlevel.c broke atapicam on my BP6 system as shown
> > by the enclosed boot -v messages (the system just hangs, apparently
> > waiting for a disk interrupt that never arrives; there seems to be no
> > timeout).
> 
> If it's any consolation: "me too" :)  Backing out 1.23 worked for me as
> well.  The system that I saw the hang on isn't SMP.  I also
> pre-emptively patched another SMP system before I had to drive in to
> fix it if it hung. 
> 

I just wanted to report that my boot hang problems (which were "cured"
by reverting to revision 1.22 of ata-lowlevel.c) have gone away with 
5.2-RC1; more precisely with 5.2-CURRENT of Dec. 10.

All the best,

db