From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Check for broken HP bioses in ahci.c appears too broad Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:29:25 +0900 Message-ID: <4AF79AA5.2030803@kernel.org> References: <20091106162824.GA23611@srcf.ucam.org> <1257525348.20269.19.camel@o> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:60432 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753286AbZKIE33 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:29:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1257525348.20269.19.camel@o> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: heinzm@redhat.com Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:28 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533402 describes a case >> where a machine is falling foul of the hp dv6 check in ahci.c. However, >> BIOS version F.04 appears to be the latest available for this machine - >> I suspect that the dv6 parameter is too broad and is picking up machines >> outside those with the affected BIOSes. >> >> Heinz, could you attach the contents of >> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name, >> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_version and >> /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_*? Maybe we should use date instead of version? Thanks. -- tejun