Re: Marvell 6145 PATA controller

From: Ville Syrjälä
Date: Sun Aug 31 2008 - 07:04:18 EST


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:36:08AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The second solution is to remove few lines from ahci.c which lists the
> > marvell 6145 device (and probably also marvell 6121).
> > Short patch included below.
>
> Yes. I know or to teach the AHCI driver how to drive the PATA part of the
> device. Unfortunately I've been trying - privately and now publically to
> get Jeff Garzik to fix that one for *months*.

I don't think this issue is on the regression list. Maybe getting it
there would get some results.

BTW would it be possible for the ahci driver to determine if the PATA
ports are used and fail the probe in case they are?

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