[gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Thanasis]

Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, 
but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a 
RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new 
.config I cannot find any PATA.
 
# grep -i pata .config
(gives nothing)

Has it been removed from the newer kernels?

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Joshua Murphy]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3, but
> the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a RAID1 on
> an SIL680 controller.
> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new .config
> I cannot find any PATA.
>
> # grep -i pata .config
> (gives nothing)
>
> Has it been removed from the newer kernels?
>
>
>

Looks like linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r4 has it, at the very least.

severn linux # pwd -P
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r4
severn linux # grep SIL680 .config
# CONFIG_PATA_SIL680 is not set

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Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:24 +0200, Thanasis wrote:

> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to
> 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem,
> because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new 
> .config I cannot find any PATA.
>  
> # grep -i pata .config
> (gives nothing)

Grepping .config is a bad way of looking for options. If option A
disables B, A will appear as not set and B will not be mentioned. The
proper way is to use the / key to search in make menuconfig, which will
show you that you need ATA_SFF enabled to see many of the PATA and SATA
drivers now.


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Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Thanasis wrote:
> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 2.6.26-r3,
> but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, because it's on a
> RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new
> .config I cannot find any PATA.
>
> # grep -i pata .config
> (gives nothing)
>
> Has it been removed from the newer kernels?

no, in the ata submenu enable the SFF stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Thanasis]

on 11/28/2008 12:33 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:24 +0200, Thanasis wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to
>> 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem,
>> because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
>> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new 
>> .config I cannot find any PATA.
>>  
>> # grep -i pata .config
>> (gives nothing)
>
> Grepping .config is a bad way of looking for options. If option A
> disables B, A will appear as not set and B will not be mentioned. The
> proper way is to use the / key to search in make menuconfig, which will
> show you that you need ATA_SFF enabled to see many of the PATA and SATA
> drivers now.
>
>
I just didn't know about the / key.
Very useful.
Thanks Neil.
:-)  
PS: are there any other keys one should know about?

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Thanasis]

on 11/27/2008 08:47 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 
> 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, 
> because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new 
> .config I cannot find any PATA.
>
> # grep -i pata .config
> (gives nothing)
>
> Has it been removed from the newer kernels?
>
>
>
>
Thank you all !
:-)

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Justin]

Thanasis schrieb:
> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 
> 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, 
> because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new 
> .config I cannot find any PATA.
>
> # grep -i pata .config
> (gives nothing)
>
> Has it been removed from the newer kernels?
>
>
Did you make a "make oldconfig"?

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA in gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3

[Thanasis]

on 11/28/2008 11:14 AM Justin wrote the following:
> Thanasis schrieb:
>> Yesterday, I tried upgrading from gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r9 to 
>> 2.6.26-r3, but the new kernel can not mount the root filesystem, 
>> because it's on a RAID1 on an SIL680 controller.
>> In the previous kernel I had  CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=y , but in the new 
>> .config I cannot find any PATA.
>>
>> # grep -i pata .config
>> (gives nothing)
>>
>> Has it been removed from the newer kernels?
>>
>>
> Did you make a "make oldconfig"?
>
>
>
Yes, I did, but probably answered "n" to the question about ATA_SFF :-(