* Merged some Alan patches...
@ 2007-12-18 22:06 Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2007-12-18 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: IDE/ATA development list; +Cc: Alan, Andrew Morton
I just moved the following changes from #for-testing (which
auto-propagates to -mm along with other stuff) into #upstream, queueing
for 2.6.25:
Applied:
> Author: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Tue Oct 2 13:53:05 2007 -0700
>
> libata: fix (hopefully) all the remaining problems with devices failing setu
>
> Two fixes in this test patch. One of them allows old CF cards to refuse
> pio mode setting, and one to wait for the drive to settle after a set
> features changes the speed settings, which is based upon the workarounds
> used by drivers/ide.
Applied:
> Author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Mon Oct 15 20:44:11 2007 +0100
>
> pata_pcmcia: Add support for dumb 8bit IDE emulations
Applied:
> Author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Thu Oct 25 14:21:16 2007 +0100
>
> libata/pata_it821x: Improve handling of poorly compatible emulations
>
> Some it821x RAID firmwares return 0 for the err return off both devices.
> A similar issue occurs with the slave returning 0 not 1 if you plug a
> gigabyte sata ramdisk into a controller that fakes two SATA ports as
> master/slave on an SFF channel.
>
> The patch does the following
>
> - Allow the 'failed diagnostics' case on both master and slave
> - Move the HORKAGE_DIAGNOSTIC check after ->dev_config
And finally, dropped one patch as per request:
> Author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Mon Oct 15 19:23:13 2007 +0100
>
> libata-core: Don't have screaming fits over DF/ERR combinations
>
> Some hardware seems to get this wrong in a non-harmful way, and there are
> some devices that seem to do it deliberately for various reasons.
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