On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:15:22PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:

On a board containing the HPT372N IDE controller the 2.6.x series kernels
will misbehave. If the HPT372N is set up with the newer PCI identifier it
is ignored. If it is set up with the HPT372 identifier then the kernel
crashes on boot.

I have been wondering about HPT37x in Fedora Core (development) kernel
called  kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.501.i686.  It doesn't find one of the cards
attached to a HPT372A card that I have.

I tried also to boot with a bit older kernels: 2.6.3, 2.6.5 do work just 
fine (except of 2.6.5 barfs the keyboard..). 

I tried also with 2.6.7-1.494smp (FC devel kernels), and that too
does fail.  I think I had also some a bit older 2.6.7, also that
one failed.   I didn't get around to try any 2.6.6 kernels.

Any ideas ?  Will this patch help ?

  /Matti Aarnio

This patch is a forward port of my 2.4 driver fixes that have been in 2.4
for a year but somehow escaped 2.6. Ronny Buchmann caught a couple
of merge details I missed and those are fixed in this diff too.

As well as adding 372N support this also fixes the unknown revision case
to avoid crashes should any future 37x variants with weird class_rev's appear

Alan

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <redacted>

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