Reset methods don't have access to phys link status for slave links and may incorrectly indicate device presence causing unnecessary probe failures for unoccupied links. This patch clears device class to NONE during post-reset processing if phys link is offline. As on/offliness semantics is strictly defined and used in multiple places by the core layer, this won't change behavior for drivers which don't use slave links. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- vt8251 incorrectly reports the same signature for unoccupied device if the other device on the channel is present. This patch fixes the problem. I integrated this patch into separate-sff-bmdma git tree. drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: work/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c =================================================================== --- work.orig/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c +++ work/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c @@ -2455,14 +2455,14 @@ int ata_eh_reset(struct ata_link *link, dev->pio_mode = XFER_PIO_0; dev->flags &= ~ATA_DFLAG_SLEEPING; - if (ata_phys_link_offline(ata_dev_phys_link(dev))) - continue; - - /* apply class override */ - if (lflags & ATA_LFLAG_ASSUME_ATA) - classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_ATA; - else if (lflags & ATA_LFLAG_ASSUME_SEMB) - classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_SEMB_UNSUP; /* not yet */ + if (!ata_phys_link_offline(ata_dev_phys_link(dev))) { + /* apply class override */ + if (lflags & ATA_LFLAG_ASSUME_ATA) + classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_ATA; + else if (lflags & ATA_LFLAG_ASSUME_SEMB) + classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_SEMB_UNSUP; + } else + classes[dev->devno] = ATA_DEV_NONE; } /* record current link speed */ -- 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