On 4/18/23 14:24, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 06:17:20PM -0700, Patrick McLean wrote: >> We have some machines with ASPEED SATA controllers, and are seeing the same NCQ >> issues that ATI controllers (I am not sure if it's a rebranded ATI controller, >> or they both have some faulty implementation). This NCQ breakage is consistent >> across a few different types of drives. >> >> Instead of maintaining a list of drives that are broken with ASPEED controllers > > Are these ASPEED controllers all the same or a wide variety? > Quirking all controllers from the same vendor seems like an overly > broad approach to me. Indeed. If you checked only one adapter model from ASPEED, then all that is needed is define it with "board_ahci_noncq" in drivers/ata/ahci.c (see ahci_pci_tbl array). NCQ support will be turned off for that particular adapter with that.
