Re: [git patches] libata updates for 3.3

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:02:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Just ping Matthew about
> >
> > http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/ahci_quirk_cleanup.diff
> 
> Hmm. This with just a setup option to enable it might well be good
> enough. No need for whitelists/blacklists, since we couldn't maintain
> those sanely anyway.
> 
> Matthew?

Last time I tested it it wasn't dealing well with setting up combination 
mode for devices with optical media, and I don't have much hardware 
lying around which still uses piix. But if I can find some time I'll dig 
something up and see if it still works. Or, if anyone else wants to do 
the same...

> Googling shows that there's a few old bugreports for this too (big
> surprise: macs):

Macs will come up with ahci if you boot via EFI rather than the BIOS 
compatibility module.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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