[CentOS-devel] sata_via and WD drives incompatibility patch

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Dmitry E. Mikhailov
<d.mikhailov at infocommunications.ru> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was hit by an infamous hardware incompatibility between VIA VT6420/1 sata
> card (sata_via) and newer Western Digital drives.
>
> The bug has been worked around in mainline kernel at 2.6.32.7,
>         * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173
>         * http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/46352
>         * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1062139
>
> The sata_via patch from bug#15173 applies cleanly to sata_via module of
> 2.6.18-238 and now I'm running using a 'fixed' module with no problem.
>
> Unfortunately the patched module uses symbols not from kABI whitelist so
> universal replacement kernel module could not be made, but the patch itself
> could be integrated to upstream's tree or into the CentOS-Plus kernel. As I'm
> not a RHEL subscriber, I can only ask for the latter.
>
> Any ideas?

Getting the patch into the centosplus kernel is as easy as filing a
request at http://bugs.centos.org . :)

Regarding the upstream kernel, you don't have to be a customer to
report a bug at http://bugzilla.redhat.com . In this case, because the
patch is already in mainline kernel, there is some good chance that it
is picked up by Red Hat.

Akemi