The early chipsets cannot safely handle Async Notification (AN), but 6041/6081 chip revision "C0" (and newer) can handle it. So allow AN for "C0" and higher. This enables use of hotplug on PMP ports for the 6041/6081 PCI Rev.9 chips. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> --- old/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2008-05-30 19:36:52.000000000 -0400 +++ linux/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2008-06-17 17:45:00.000000000 -0400 @@ -1322,6 +1322,9 @@ goto out_port_free_dma_mem; memset(pp->crpb, 0, MV_CRPB_Q_SZ); + /* 6041/6081 Rev. "C0" (and newer) are okay with async notify */ + if (hpriv->hp_flags & MV_HP_ERRATA_60X1C0) + ap->flags |= ATA_FLAG_AN; /* * For GEN_I, there's no NCQ, so we only allocate a single sg_tbl. * For later hardware, we need one unique sg_tbl per NCQ tag. -- 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