From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ahci: Enable SB600 64bit DMA on MSI K9AGM2 (MS-7327) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:43:17 +0400 Message-ID: <4FEAF1D5.9000505@mvista.com> References: <4FE92267.60106@gmail.com> <4FE9937B.7080503@mvista.com> <4FEAA8AE.8040807@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:50935 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714Ab2F0LoF (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:44:05 -0400 Received: by lbbgm6 with SMTP id gm6so1512356lbb.19 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:44:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FEAA8AE.8040807@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Nelson Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org Hello. On 27-06-2012 10:31, Mark Nelson wrote: >>> Like e65cc194f7628ecaa02462f22f42fb09b50dcd49 >> Please also specify that commit's summary in parens. > Very good point! Should I do a simple respin of this patch adding the commit > summary, or just do it for future patches? That's up to the maintainer but I'd respin the patch... > Thanks! > Mark >>> this patch enables 64bit DMA >>> for the AHCI SATA controller of a board that has the SB600 >>> southbridge. In >>> this case though we're enabling 64bit DMA for another MSI motherboard, >>> the >>> K9AGM2 or MS-7327. It is new enough that all of the BIOS releases since >>> the initial release (1.0 from 2007-02-09) work correctly with 64bit >>> DMA enabled. >>> Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson MBR, Sergei