During prereset, -ENODEV return from ata_wait_ready() is not an error. This causes unnecessary bug message on controllers which uses 0xff to indicate empty port. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This one is for 2.6.22 too. Thanks. libata-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index a6de57e..79f2175 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -3368,7 +3368,7 @@ int ata_std_prereset(struct ata_port *ap */ if (!(ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SKIP_D2H_BSY) && !ata_port_offline(ap)) { rc = ata_wait_ready(ap, deadline); - if (rc) { + if (rc && rc != -ENODEV) { ata_port_printk(ap, KERN_WARNING, "device not ready " "(errno=%d), forcing hardreset\n", rc); ehc->i.action |= ATA_EH_HARDRESET; - 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