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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: disabling sata_nv ADMA for 2.6.24
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:15:56 -0500
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To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, guys.
> 
> We still have three problems with ADMA.
> 
> * hard lockup during resume
> * occasional hard lockup after hotplug or other erros (probably related
> to the above?)
> * occasional timeout of FLUSH after NCQ writes
> 
> I think we should disable ADMA for 2.6.24 and -stable for now.  What do
> you guys think?
..

Heck, given the active vendor neglect here,
I'm surprised we even bother with it at all!

Cheers