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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-eh: call freeze hook before port abort
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:58:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DBDA80.2020204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DBC7F1.3040801@garzik.org>

Hello,

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> This patch looks like it might work for !PMP setups, but I am not so
> sure about PMP.

Looks good to me too.  PMP shouldn't make any difference if the port
is being frozen.  The new behavior is more correct.

> Any comments?  This should help begin addressing the problem where
> hardware needs the DMA engine turned off before accessing the
> taskfile registers -- something needed for ata_port_abort() via
> ata_qc_complete().

Yeah, if this can work around the reported problem, I think this is
the correct way to fix it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-07 21:38 [PATCH] libata-eh: call freeze hook before port abort Jeff Garzik
2009-04-07 22:58 ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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