Re: [PATCH] ahci: Fix long standing Marvell regressions

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> The actual fix for the moment is very simple. If the user has included
> the pata_marvell driver let it drive the ports. If they've only selected
> for SATA support give them the AHCI driver which will run the port a fraction
> faster. Allow the user to control this decision via ahci.marvell_enable as
> a module parameter so that distributions can ship 'it works' defaults and
> smarter users (or config tools) can then flip it over it desired.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/ata/Kconfig |    6 ++++--
>  drivers/ata/ahci.c  |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

[snip]

That's far more reasonable, and I'd be happy to queue that with your 
full email text...

Unless you object, I'll roll this up with a couple other libata fixes 
for 2.6.27-rc.

	Jeff