Re: [PATCH v2.6.38-rc7] Revert "libata: ahci_start_engine compliant to AHCI spec"

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 14:26:17 EST


On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:02:56 PDT, Jian Peng said:
> --20cf307f38f6d842a904a3b81730

> You are both right that adding this majic 5ms delay at this place should not
> be the final solution.
>
> If this magic 5ms delay works on other affected systems, I plan to post a
> new patch that inside ahci_start_engine(), still perform same check, and
> show warning message if failed, but will set a flag, then still set START
> bit, and if there is such failure flag, add 5ms delay.
>
> Valdis, could you apply the following patch and retest it?

I should be able to do that this weekend. To clarify - should this be with the
problem commit 270dac35c26433d06a89150c51e75ca0181ca7e4 applied, or reverted?

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