Re: [PATCH] Restore SB600 SATA controller 64 bit DMA

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Shane Huang wrote:
> Community reported one SB600 SATA issue(BZ #9412), which led to 64 bit
> DMA disablement for all SB600 revisions by driver maintainers with
> commits c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c and
> 4cde32fc4b32e96a99063af3183acdfd54c563f0.
> 
> But the root cause is ASUS M2A-VM system BIOS bug in old revisions
> like 0901, while forcing into 32bit DMA happens to work as workaround.
> Now it's time to withdraw 4cde32fc4b32e96a99063af3183acdfd54c563f0
> so as to restore the SB600 SATA 64bit DMA capability.
> This patch is also adding the workaround for M2A-VM old BIOS revisions,
> but users are suggested to upgrade their system BIOS to the latest one
> if they meet this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shane Huang <shane.huang@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

It would be nicer to mention the export of dmi_get_year() but..

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

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tejun
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