The libata driver has copied the code from the IDE driver which caused a post 2.4.18 regression on many HPT370[A] chips -- DMA stopped to work completely, only causing timeouts. Now remove hpt370_bmdma_start() for good... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- The patch is against the recent Linus' tree. It's intended to go into all stable kernels starting with 2.6.19, when the PATA drivers were first merged. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=123912061904872 for the IDE driver patch. drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c | 22 ++-------------------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Andre Hedrick <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Portions Copyright (C) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. * Portions Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat Inc - * Portions Copyright (C) 2005-2007 MontaVista Software, Inc. + * Portions Copyright (C) 2005-2009 MontaVista Software, Inc. * * TODO * Look into engine reset on timeout errors. Should not be required. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ #include <linux/libata.h> #define DRV_NAME "pata_hpt37x" -#define DRV_VERSION "0.6.11" +#define DRV_VERSION "0.6.12" struct hpt_clock { u8 xfer_speed; @@ -445,23 +445,6 @@ static void hpt370_set_dmamode(struct at } /** - * hpt370_bmdma_start - DMA engine begin - * @qc: ATA command - * - * The 370 and 370A want us to reset the DMA engine each time we - * use it. The 372 and later are fine. - */ - -static void hpt370_bmdma_start(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) -{ - struct ata_port *ap = qc->ap; - struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(ap->host->dev); - pci_write_config_byte(pdev, 0x50 + 4 * ap->port_no, 0x37); - udelay(10); - ata_bmdma_start(qc); -} - -/** * hpt370_bmdma_end - DMA engine stop * @qc: ATA command * @@ -598,7 +581,6 @@ static struct scsi_host_template hpt37x_ static struct ata_port_operations hpt370_port_ops = { .inherits = &ata_bmdma_port_ops, - .bmdma_start = hpt370_bmdma_start, .bmdma_stop = hpt370_bmdma_stop, .mode_filter = hpt370_filter, -- 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
