Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: revert use of notifiers for now

[Jeff Garzik]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> Commit 721449bf0d51213fe3abf0ac3e3561ef9ea7827a added support for using the
> ADMA notifier bits to determine which commands to check for completion.
> However there have been reports that this causes command timeouts in 
> certain
> cases. This is still being investigated. In addition, apparently the 
> notifiers
> won't work if ADMA is disabled on the other port as a result of an ATAPI 
> device
> being connected, and we don't handle this case properly.
>
> For now, just restore the previous behavior of checking all active commands
> to see if they are complete, without relying on the notifiers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx>

applied to #upstream-fixes


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