Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] ata: ahci_sunxi: Disable DIPM

[Jens Axboe]

On 6/14/21 1:25 AM, Timo Sigurdsson wrote:
> DIPM is unsupported or broken on sunxi. Trying to enable the power
> management policy med_power_with_dipm on an Allwinner A20 SoC based board
> leads to immediate I/O errors and the attached SATA disk disappears from
> the /dev filesystem. A reset (power cycle) is required to make the SATA
> controller or disk work again. The A10 and A20 SoC data sheets and manuals
> don't mention DIPM at all [1], so it's fair to assume that it's simply not
> supported. But even if it was, it should be considered broken and best be
> disabled in the ahci_sunxi driver.

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe