David Miller wrote: > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:13:18 +0200 > > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: [PATCH] ide: ide_port_wait_ready() fix > > > > Fix for commit a20b2a4 ("ide: skip probe if there are no devices on > > the port (v2)"). We must check for slave device before failing. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > This will mishandle the case where there is no slave in the device > list. I don't see it: @ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int ide_port_wait_ready(ide_hwif_ { const struct ide_tp_ops *tp_ops = hwif->tp_ops; ide_drive_t *drive; - int i, rc; + int i, rc, prev_rc = 0; printk(KERN_DEBUG "Probing IDE interface %s...\n", hwif->name); @@ -623,8 +623,10 @@ static int ide_port_wait_ready(ide_hwif_ tp_ops->write_devctl(hwif, ATA_DEVCTL_OBS); mdelay(2); rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000); - if (rc) + if (prev_rc && rc) goto out; + prev_rc = rc; + rc = 0; } else printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: ide_wait_not_busy() skipped\n", drive->name); If there is no slave device but there is a master device the code falls-through and returns a success. The patch fixes regression introduced in commit a20b2a4 as some esoteric setups return ide_wait_not_busy() -ENODEV error on master device while there is slave device present in the system. -- 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