Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > [PATCH] ide: revert "ide: fix drive side 80c cable check, take 2" for now > > "ide: fix drive side 80c cable check, take 2" patch from Tejun Heo (commit > fab59375b9543f84d1714f7dd00f5d11e531bd3e) fixed 80c bit test (bit13 of word93) > but we also need to fix master/slave IDENTIFY order (slave device should be > probed first in order to make it release PDIAG- signal) and we should also > check for pre-ATA3 slave devices (which may not release PDIAG- signal). > > [ Unfortunately the fact that IDE driver doesn't reset devices itself helps > only a bit as it seems that some BIOS-es reset ATA devices after programming > the chipset, some BIOS-es can be set to not probe/configure selected devices, > there may be no BIOS in case of add-on cards etc. ] > > Since we are quite late in the release cycle and the required changes will > affect a lot of systems just revert the fix for now. > > [ Please also see libata commit f31f0cc2f0b7527072d94d02da332d9bb8d7d94c. ] > > Thanks goes out to Fernando Mitio Yamada for reporting the problem > and patiently testing patches. > > Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Ackec-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> Never suspected it could cause this much problem. :-( -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
