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authorSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>2009-04-18 17:42:19 +0200
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>2009-04-18 17:42:19 +0200
commitc018f1ee5cf81e58b93d9e93a2ee39cad13dc1ac (patch)
tree01b468a57d95471c28be378868ebadaac481412b
parentaefe6475720bd5eb8aacbc881488f3aa65618562 (diff)
downloadlinux-c018f1ee5cf81e58b93d9e93a2ee39cad13dc1ac.tar.gz
hpt366: fix HPT370 DMA timeouts
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@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/hpt366.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/hpt366.c b/drivers/ide/hpt366.c
index a0eb87f59134..cea1ac222a90 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/hpt366.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/hpt366.c
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@
  *   the register setting lists into the table indexed by the clock selected
  * - set the correct hwif->ultra_mask for each individual chip
  * - add Ultra and MW DMA mode filtering for the HPT37[24] based SATA cards
+ * - stop resetting HPT370's state machine before each DMA transfer as that has
+ *   caused more harm than good
  *	Sergei Shtylyov, <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> or <source@mvista.com>
  */
 
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@
 #define DRV_NAME "hpt366"
 
 /* various tuning parameters */
-#define HPT_RESET_STATE_ENGINE
+#undef	HPT_RESET_STATE_ENGINE
 #undef	HPT_DELAY_INTERRUPT
 
 static const char *quirk_drives[] = {