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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jean-Fran?ois Stenuit <jfs@keytradebank.com>,
	Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com>, "0602@eq.cz" <0602@eq.cz>,
	Linux-ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata_piix: ignore all zero PCS value on ICH5's
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:01:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E01691.9040600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DC510A.1090101@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>> Some ICH5's report 0 for PCS even when they have active working ports.
>> This patch makes piix_sata_probe() ignore 0 PCS value on ICH5's and
>> probe all ports in such cases.  And while at it, remove bogus
>> assignment to mask.
>>
> 
> I'm just not too thrilled about this.  I wonder if its an isolated 
> incident related to power or something.  I would wait for more problem 
> reports, before applying this.
> 

I'm not too sure about this one either, but we have two independent 
consistent bug reports and PCS handling in ata_piix isn't that necessary 
or strict to begin with, so....

How about making it a driver option?  ata_piix.ignore_PCS maybe?

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-01  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <438B6E05.8070009@eq.cz>
2005-11-30  4:35 ` totally random "VFS: Cannot open root device" Tejun Heo
2005-11-30  9:05   ` Jean-François Stenuit
2005-11-30 16:30     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-12-01  9:42       ` Jean-François Stenuit
2005-12-01 11:20     ` Jean-François Stenuit
2005-11-30 13:07   ` 0602
2005-11-30 22:05     ` Keith Mannthey
2005-12-01  9:40       ` Jean-François Stenuit
2005-12-01 11:20         ` Tejun Heo
2005-12-01 12:59           ` Jean-François Stenuit
2005-12-01 13:29             ` Tejun Heo
2005-12-01 15:34               ` 0602
2005-12-02  1:53               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-02  3:00                 ` Tejun Heo
2005-12-02  3:26                   ` [PATCH] ata_piix: ignore all zero PCS value on ICH5's Tejun Heo
2005-12-02 12:40                     ` 0602
2005-12-05 10:07                     ` Jean-François Stenuit
2005-12-05 10:17                       ` Tejun Heo
2006-01-29  5:22                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-01  2:01                       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-02-09  9:23                         ` Jeff Garzik

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