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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_hpt37x: fix HPT370 DMA timeouts
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:45:50 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E4BDBE.7070903@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414173507.136ac439@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:


>>The libata driver has copied the code from the IDE driver which caused a post
>>2.4.18 regression on many HPT370[A] chips -- DMA stopped to work completely,
>>only causing timeouts.  Now remove hpt370_bmdma_start() for good...

> Do we need to move it rather than remove it though. I need to look at
> that a bit with my HPT370 and see what happens. I suspect that if we get
> a failed transfer we need to do the reset somewhere -

    Well, the driver does the reset in hpt370_bmdma_stop(), and even twice.

> perhaps qc_issue before anything hits the chip for the command ?

    No idea. I think it's just not needed.

MBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-14 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 14:39 [PATCH] pata_hpt37x: fix HPT370 DMA timeouts Sergei Shtylyov
2009-04-14 16:35 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-14 16:45   ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2009-04-15  9:30     ` Alan Cox
2009-04-16 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik

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