Re: PATCH: Fix broken PIO with libata

[Jeff Garzik]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>> #2	The core sets ATA_DFLAG_PIO to indicate PIO commands should be used
>> on this channel. This same information is available in dev->dma_mode but
>> for some reason we get two sources of the info. The ATA_DFLAG_PIO is set
>> once during setup and then cleared but not re-computed by the revalidate
>> function. This causes DMA commands to be issued when PIO would be and
>> usually an Oops or hang
> 
> Hmmm... I tried to fix this problem in the following commit.  With it,
> ATA_DFLAG_PIO isn't cleared over ata_dev_configure().  Only
> ata_dev_set_mode() is allowed to diddle with it and does about the same
> thing as your patch does.

I presume he's looking at what users will hit when 2.6.17 is released...

	Jeff



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