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Alan Cox wrote:
>> system.  The only recourse is to cycle power to the board.  By allowing 
>> DMA to be disabled, we eliminate this problem.
> 
> You can already do this via the existing libata option functions that
> Tejun added a while back, or there is libata.dma=0 which is applied to
> all interfaces.
> 

Great, I will remove our driver's option.

David Daney