Re: [PATCH] hpt366: fix HPT370 DMA timeouts

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On Tuesday 07 April 2009 18:09:32 Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> The big driver change in 2.4.19-rc1 introduced a regression for many HPT370[A]
> chips -- DMA stopped to work completely, only causing endless timeouts...
> 
> The culprit has been identified (at last!): it turned to be the code resetting
> the DMA state machine before each transfer. Stop doing it now as this counter-
> measure has clearly caused more harm than good.
> 
> This should fix the kernel.org bug #7703.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Wow!

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