From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: revert use of notifiers for now
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:50:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F1582D.2050005@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F0A40A.4050508@shaw.ca>
Robert Hancock wrote:
> Commit 721449bf0d51213fe3abf0ac3e3561ef9ea7827a added support for using the
> ADMA notifier bits to determine which commands to check for completion.
> However there have been reports that this causes command timeouts in
> certain
> cases. This is still being investigated. In addition, apparently the
> notifiers
> won't work if ADMA is disabled on the other port as a result of an ATAPI
> device
> being connected, and we don't handle this case properly.
>
> For now, just restore the previous behavior of checking all active commands
> to see if they are complete, without relying on the notifiers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
applied to #upstream-fixes
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2007-03-09 0:02 [PATCH] sata_nv: revert use of notifiers for now Robert Hancock
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