Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix SoC interrupt breakage

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Mark Lord wrote:
> For some reason, sata_mv doesn't clear interrupt status during init
> when it's running on an SoC host adapter.  If the bootloader has
> touched the SATA controller before starting Linux, Linux can end up
> enabling the SATA interrupt with events pending, which will cause the
> interrupt to be marked as spurious and then be disabled, which then
> breaks all further accesses to the controller.
> 
> This patch makes the SoC path clear interrupt status on init like in
> the non-SoC case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
> ---
> 
> This is for 2.6.29 (upstream-fixes).
> Despite appearances, this patch simply removes a single unnecessary
> if-stmt from the code.  It looks larger due to the resulting change
> in indentation level.

applied manually...  not even patch(1) liked this one, and patch(1) is 
far less strict than git-am patch import tool.  Other peoples' patches 
are processing just fine.

	Jeff