[PATCH] PCI: mvebu: Mark driver as BROKEN

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Tue Aug 8 00:56:23 PDT 2023


On Tuesday 08 August 2023 09:38:22 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Pali,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:27:01AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Friday 04 August 2023 15:46:22 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 12:35:13PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > > Uwe has a SATA controller for a bunch of disks in an Armada 370 based
> > > > NAS platform that is connected to PCIe, and removing PCIe support
> > > > effectively makes his platform utterly useless.
> > > 
> > > While this is true there is really a problem on my platform with
> > > accessing the hard disks via that pci controller and a 88SE9215 SATA
> > > controller. While it seems to work in principle, it's incredible slow.
> > 
> > Exactly those are things which randomly does not work.
> 
> I had this slow behaviour consistently on next-20230803 and
> next-20230804 was fine. I thought that meant that there was something
> fixed between these two trees. Do you suggest this is worth to
> investigate as it might just be some butterfly effect that made the
> problem go away?

These issues are there for a longer time, it started appearing after
5.15 lts version. And by your description it means that they were not
fixed yet.

> Best regards
> Uwe
> 
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