From: Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> The ACPI specification states, and BIOS implementations depend on, _STM being called before _GTF. SATA does this, but PATA does not. So for now, simply prevent execution of _GTF on PATA devices. Longer term we should implement ACPI support for PATA devices in libata. Signed-off-by: Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c index d14a48e..89aaf74 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c @@ -561,6 +561,13 @@ int ata_acpi_exec_tfs(struct ata_port *ap) if (noacpi) return 0; + /* + * TBD - implement PATA support. For now, + * we should not run GTF on PATA devices since some + * PATA require execution of GTM/STM before GTF. + */ + if (!(ap->cbl == ATA_CBL_SATA)) + return 0; for (ix = 0; ix < ATA_MAX_DEVICES; ix++) { if (!ata_dev_enabled(&ap->device[ix])) -- 1.5.0.3.310.g05ef5 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html