Re: TI: X15 the connected SSD is not detected on Linux next 20221006 tag

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022, at 2:22 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 10/14/22 07:07, Anders Roxell wrote:
> [...]
>>> 8)
>>>> If reverting these patches restores the eSATA port on this board, then you need
>>>> to fix the defconfig for that board.
>>>
>>> OTOH,
>>> Anders, enabled the new config CONFIG_AHCI_DWC=y  and tried but the
>>> device failed to boot.
>> 
>> I thought it would work with enabling CONFIG_AHCI_DWC=y, but it didn't...
>
> As mentioned in my previous reply to Naresh, this is a new driver added in
> 6.1. Your board was working before so this should not be the driver needed
> for it.
>
>> However, reverting patch 33629d35090f ("ata: ahci: Add DWC AHCI SATA
>> controller support")
>> from next-20221013 was a success, kernel booted  and the 'mkfs.ext4' cmd was
>> successful.
>
> Which is very strange... There is only one hunk in that commit that could
> be considered suspicious:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
> index 9b56490ecbc3..8f5572a9f8f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
> @@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ahci_pm_ops, ahci_platform_suspend,
>  static const struct of_device_id ahci_of_match[] = {
>         { .compatible = "generic-ahci", },
>         /* Keep the following compatibles for device tree compatibility */
> -       { .compatible = "snps,spear-ahci", },
>         { .compatible = "ibm,476gtr-ahci", },
> -       { .compatible = "snps,dwc-ahci", },
>         { .compatible = "hisilicon,hisi-ahci", },
>         { .compatible = "cavium,octeon-7130-ahci", },
>         { /* sentinel */ }
>
> Is your board using one of these compatible string ?

The x15 uses "snps,dwc-ahci". I would expect it to detect the device
with the new driver if that is loaded, but it's possible that the
driver does not work on all versions of the dwc-ahci hardware.

Anders, can you provide the boot log from a boot with the new driver
built in? There should be some messages from dwc-ahci about finding
the device, but then not ultimately working.

Depending on which way it goes wrong, the safest fallback for 6.1 is
probably to move the "snps,spear-ahci" and "snps,dwc-ahci" compatible
strings back into the old driver, and leave the new one only for 
the "baikal,bt1-ahci" implementation of it, until it has been
successfully verified on TI am5/dra7, spear13xx and exynos.

     Arnd