Re: [72/98] ata_piix: enable 32bit PIO on SATA piix

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 19:05:05 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:56:45AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 01/27/2010 08:34 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 0b67c7439fe2a5d76602de36854c88e2beab00b0 upstream.
> >
> > Commit 871af1210f13966ab911ed2166e4ab2ce775b99d enabled 32bit PIO for
> > PATA piix but didn't for SATA. There's no reason not to use 32bit PIO
> > on SATA piix. Enable it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>
> Umm... I don't really think this would be necessary for -stable. It
> probably won't break anything but at the same time this doesn't really
> fix any critical problem.

Ok, thanks for letting me know, I'll go drop it. I found it when I was
looking for other changes in this area.

thanks,

greg k-h
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