Re: [PATCH] Serialize CMD643 and CMD646 to fix a hardware bug with SSD

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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Alan Cox wrote:

> >     Yeah. The libata driver however doesn't make use of that register, 
> > unlike  cmd64x. It doesn't even touch the interrupt bits on PCI0646, only 
> > manipulation the "old" bits on PCI-64[89].
> 
> Yes I purposefully left out all the complexity because when I tested the
> cards I had it simply wasn't needed. I'm also not sure we should merge
> anything from the old to the new one until we know why the old one
> corrupts and the new one merely gets upset. Accidentally porting over a
> corruptor would be very bad indeed.

Well, if Daniela showed that cmd64[36] docs say it needs serialization, 
then just add it there. Don't rely on the fact that the corruption didn't 
happen in my case.

Mikulas
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