From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik 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 Message-ID: <4C069A0B.6030504@garzik.org> References: <4C03C728.9080107@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f179.google.com ([209.85.211.179]:50881 "EHLO mail-yw0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753633Ab0FBRvM (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:51:12 -0400 Received: by ywh9 with SMTP id 9so5331413ywh.17 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:51:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C03C728.9080107@kernel.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , JosephChan@via.com.tw, sjorrit@gmail.com, stable@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 > Originally-from: Joseph Chan > Reported-by: Jorrit Tijben > 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