From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-core/sff: Fix multiple assumptions about DMA
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:43:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466B6563.9030107@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070607161915.2dbe3511@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
> The ata IRQ ack functions are only used when debugging. Unfortunately
> almost every controller that calls them can cause crashes in some
> configurations as there are missing checks for bmdma presence.
>
> In addition ata_port_start insists of installing DMA buffers and pad
> buffers for controllers regardless. The SFF controllers actually need to
> make that decision dynamically at controller setup time and all need the
> same helper - so we add ata_sff_port_start. Future patches will switch
> the SFF drivers to use this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
applied to #upstream-fixes
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2007-06-07 15:19 [PATCH] libata-core/sff: Fix multiple assumptions about DMA Alan Cox
2007-06-10 2:43 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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