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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@dgreaves.com,
	jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REPOST PATCH] sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:20:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46683E4D.9060801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606160511.GA23143@havoc.gtf.org>

On 06/06/2007 12:05 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> FYI to all -- 
> 
> As a reminder. the Promise hardware programs registers when it receives
> a SET FEATURES - XFER MODE.
> 
> If data transfer is occurring on OTHER ports at the time this is issued,
> then data corruption is guaranteed to occur.  Polling will not fix this
> problem -- all ports need to be inactive, when a SET FEATURES - XFER
> MODE command is issued for any port.
> 

So is this patch OK but yet more work needs to be done, or does
this patch cause new problems?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-07 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 21:31 Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3 Mikael Pettersson
2007-06-05 21:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-05 23:37   ` walt
2007-06-06  6:56   ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-06 10:21     ` [REPOST PATCH] sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands Tejun Heo
2007-06-06 15:42       ` walt
2007-06-06 16:05       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-06 16:34         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-07 17:20         ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-06-07 17:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 17:30             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 15:17       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 15:45         ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-06 11:11 Mikael Pettersson

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