ata_catch_inflight causes boot freeze

[Søren Schmidt]

Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 16.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kris Maglione:
> 
>> On my laptop, while the call to ata_catch_inflight is in 
>> dev/ata/ata-all.c, my laptop freezes at boot, after detecting acd0 and 
>> doing GEOM: Configure for ad0.
>>
>> I don't mind commenting out the line in my builds, but others 
>> shouldn't have to go through what I did to come to the same conclusion 
>> (building the kernel from various dates and burning it to a FreesBIE CD).
>>
>> Anyway, I'm not familiar enought with the kernel archetecture to 
>> figure out why the function causes a boot freeze. I only figured out 
>> that it did by reviewing commits between the dates that it worked and 
>> the dates that it didn't. I'm willing to provide whatever 
>> information/help that I can to come up with a more permanent solution.
> 
> 
> Just so this doesn't get lost, you might want to open a PR, including 
> the exact commit that you think introduced this. You also might want to 
> drop a note to Søren (sos@), author of much of the ATA code.

No need, the problem is known.

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-Søren