Re: [PATCH v2] ata: libata-core: Add BRIDGE_OK quirk for QEMU drives

[Niklas Cassel]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 02:53:12PM +0000, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> Currently, whenever you boot with a QEMU drive over an AHCI interface,
> you get:
> [    1.632121] ata1.00: applying bridge limits
> 
> This happens due to the kernel not believing the given drive is SATA,
> since word 93 of IDENTIFY (ATA_ID_HW_CONFIG) is non-zero. The result is
> a pretty severe limit in max_hw_sectors_kb, which limits our IO sizes.
> 
> [...]


Added Damien's R-b tag, since the patch is essentially the same as V1.


Applied to libata/linux.git (libata-for-7.0-fixes), thanks!

[1/1] ata: libata-core: Add BRIDGE_OK quirk for QEMU drives
      https://git.kernel.org/libata/linux/c/b92b0075

Kind regards,
Niklas