Re: [PATCH] ata: libata-pmp: disable the SEMB port on Marvell 88SM9705

[Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2026 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Marco Ziliani wrote:
> Hi Kyrylo,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2026 at 09:13:35AM +0100, Kyrylo Biryuk wrote:
> >                                     softreset  reset failed,  last disk
> >                                     failed     giving up      attached
> >   7.4-rc1, no libata.force          60         12             197 s
> >   7.4-rc1, libata.force=N.05:norst   0          0              70 s
> >   7.4-rc1 + this patch, no force     0          0              11 s
> 
> Thanks a lot for testing, and on a second unit with a different setup.
> 
> The norst row shows that the commit message is too strong where it
> says libata.force cannot work around the problem: norst on port 5
> removes the retry loop, but the last disk still comes up about a
> minute later than with the patch. Niklas, Damien, I can send a v2
> that says so, or you can reword that sentence when applying, as you
> prefer.

Please send a v2.

You can pick up the Tested by tag.

Please also remove any references to Debian, we usually don't reference
downstream distros unless there is a very strong reason to do so.


Kind regards,
Niklas