From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
JosephChan@via.com.tw, sjorrit@gmail.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:51:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C069A0B.6030504@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C03C728.9080107@kernel.org>
On 05/31/2010 10:26 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> vt6421 has problems talking to recent WD drives. It causes a lot of
> transmission errors while high bandwidth transfer as reported in the
> following bugzilla entry.
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173
>
> Joseph Chan provided the following fix. I don't have any idea what it
> does but I can verify the issue is gone with the patch applied.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo<tj@kernel.org>
> Originally-from: Joseph Chan<JosephChan@via.com.tw>
> Reported-by: Jorrit Tijben<sjorrit@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
> Joseph, can you please add some documentation of what it does and why?
>
> Thanks.
>
> drivers/ata/sata_via.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
applied
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 14:26 [PATCH #upstream-fixes] sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives Tejun Heo
2010-06-02 17:51 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2010-06-03 1:49 ` JosephChan
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