The SATA_PATA_SHARING register doesn't have anything to do with the SATA part of the controller. It indicates whether an extern SATA PHY is attached to the PATA part of the controller and if so how it is wired. As the PATA part is driven by pata_via, sata_via has no reason to care about that. Also, pata_via should work fine under all configurations. This patch removes unnecessary attach failures. It seems recent via chipsets are defaulting to different values or are actually connected to SATA PHY triggering this more often. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/sata_via.c | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c index f075702..1dc9b4f 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ enum { SATA_CHAN_ENAB = 0x40, /* SATA channel enable */ SATA_INT_GATE = 0x41, /* SATA interrupt gating */ SATA_NATIVE_MODE = 0x42, /* Native mode enable */ - SATA_PATA_SHARING = 0x49, /* PATA/SATA sharing func ctrl */ PATA_UDMA_TIMING = 0xB3, /* PATA timing for DMA/ cable detect */ PATA_PIO_TIMING = 0xAB, /* PATA timing register */ @@ -68,7 +67,6 @@ enum { NATIVE_MODE_ALL = (1 << 7) | (1 << 6) | (1 << 5) | (1 << 4), SATA_EXT_PHY = (1 << 6), /* 0==use PATA, 1==ext phy */ - SATA_2DEV = (1 << 5), /* SATA is master/slave */ }; static int svia_init_one (struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent); @@ -508,7 +506,6 @@ static int svia_init_one (struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) struct ata_host *host; int board_id = (int) ent->driver_data; const int *bar_sizes; - u8 tmp8; if (!printed_version++) dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, &pdev->dev, "version " DRV_VERSION "\n"); @@ -517,19 +514,10 @@ static int svia_init_one (struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) if (rc) return rc; - if (board_id == vt6420) { - pci_read_config_byte(pdev, SATA_PATA_SHARING, &tmp8); - if (tmp8 & SATA_2DEV) { - dev_printk(KERN_ERR, &pdev->dev, - "SATA master/slave not supported (0x%x)\n", - (int) tmp8); - return -EIO; - } - + if (board_id == vt6420) bar_sizes = &svia_bar_sizes[0]; - } else { + else bar_sizes = &vt6421_bar_sizes[0]; - } for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(svia_bar_sizes); i++) if ((pci_resource_start(pdev, i) == 0) || - 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