Hello,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:46PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> I can easily reproduce the problem in 2.6.22-rc4. There are no
>> sata_promise changes between rc3 and rc4, but Tejun's libata
>> polling SETXFER change was included in rc4. Reverting it makes
>> sata_promise work again for me.
>
> Ugh.
Ugh...
>> I suspect that sata_promise.c:pdc_interrupt() should detect
>> a qc w/ ATA_TFLAG_POLLING, treat the interrupt as spurious,
>> and just call ata_chk_status(qc), similar to how sata_inic162x.c,
>> sata_nv.c, sata_sil.c, and sata_vsc.c do things.
>
> Yes, highly likely.
I'm not sure whether that will work. I'll give a shot at it here.
> SFF-like controllers (and in this case, Promise is included in that
> list) with their own interrupt handlers need their own polling handling
> code.
One thing I don't understand is why IDENTIFY works. IDENTIFY uses
polling too. Hmm...
--
tejun
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