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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init()
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:49:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CD863C.7000802@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CB9227.30307@intel.com>

Hello.

On 27-06-2013 5:15, Aaron Lu wrote:

>>>> There are  some SATA controllers which have both devices 0 and 1 but this module

>>> Do you mean a SATA port can connect to two SATA devices without PMP?

>>      No, I mean 2 SATA ports combined in one ATA channel as 2 devices.
>> Look for SLAVE_POSS in drivers/ata/[s]ata*.c...

> Oh yes that happened when the SATA controller is in IDE programming
> mode, not AHCI.

    AHCI is not the only mode for the SATA controllers.

> ZPODD is only supported for SATA controllers in AHCI programming mode,

    Hm, really? How about the true SATA controllers that don't use AHCI?

> the ACPI table will not support power off the port if the controller is
> in IDE mode, so the device 1 case shouldn't happen in practice :-)

    Anyway, I need uniform setup for ata_exec_internal() call for my to 
be posted cleanup patches.

> Thanks,
> Aaron

WBR, Sergei


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-28 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-23 19:25 [PATCH] libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init() Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-23 19:34 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-24 22:46 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-26  2:05 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-26 11:10   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-27  1:15     ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-28 12:49       ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2013-06-29 13:04         ` Aaron Lu

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