Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> VMware ich4 emulation incorrectly sets DMA_ERR on TF error. Ignore >> it. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> > > hrm. IIRC, the old-IDE code just sorta ignores this, and in the > original libata I followed old-IDE's habit of acking events with > > write-to-dma-status-register(err | intr) > > so what part of libata-core cares about this distinction? what is the > specific behavior from the original problem report that this solves? Well, basically, some versions of vmware sets DMA_ERR on CHECK_SENSE, so cdroms get reset when they try to report sense data. Thanks. -- 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
