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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "IDE/ATA development list" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Mathieu Bérard" <Mathieu.Berard@crans.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata-acpi: filter out DIPM enable
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:38:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48776263.3040103@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4870D367.40106@kernel.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Some BIOSen enable DIPM via _GTF which causes command timeouts under
> certain configuration.  This didn't occur on 2.6.25 because 2.6.25
> defaulted to SRST, so _GTF wasn't executed during boot probe, so ahci
> host reset disabled DIPM and as _GTF wasn't executed after SRST, DIPM
> wasn't enabled.  On 2.6.26, hardreset is used during probe and after
> probe _GTF is executed enabling DIPM and thus the failures.
> 
> This patch could theoretically disable DIPM on machines which used to
> have it enabled on 2.6.25 but AFAIK ahci is currently the only driver
> which uses SATA ACPI hierarchy (_SDD) and as the host reset would have
> always disabled DIPM, this shouldn't happen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-06 14:15 [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata-acpi: filter out DIPM enable Tejun Heo
2008-07-06 15:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-11 13:38 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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