Re: [PATCH] libata: fallback to the other IDENTIFY on device error

[William Thompson <wt@electro-mechanical.com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:42:26PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> It seems the world isn't as frank as we thought and some devices lie
> about who they are.  Fallback to the other IDENTIFY if IDENTIFY fails
> with device error.  As this is the strategy used by IDE for a long
> time, it shouldn't cause too much problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> Cc: William Thompson <wt@electro-mechanical.com>
> ---
> Willam, please verify this fixes your problem.  Jeff, after all, we
> seem to need this.  :-(

Seems that I have a different version than you do.  See below.

> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> index ca67484..f543109 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> @@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ int ata_dev_read_id(struct ata_device *d
>  	struct ata_taskfile tf;
>  	unsigned int err_mask = 0;
>  	const char *reason;
> -	int tried_spinup = 0;
> +	int may_fallback = 1, tried_spinup = 0;
>  	int rc;

My version doesn't have "int tried_spinup = 0;" in it at all.  I did find
where const char *reason; is (line 1455)

I'm using 2.6.20

I probably won't use 2.6.21 due to some of the problems I read about on the
kernel list.

I'll manually add this patch to mine and see how far I get.
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