On Monday 11 June 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Code intended to check DMA status was checking DMA command register.
> >
> > Moreover firmware seems to "forget" to set DMA capable bit for the
> > slave device (at least in RAID mode but without ITE RAID volumes) so
> > check device ID for DMA capable bit when deciding whether to use DMA
> > and remove DMA status check completely.
> >
> > Thanks to Pavol Šimo for the bugreport and testing the initial fix.
> >
> > This change unfortunately still doesn't fix DMA in RAID mode (which
> > works fine with IDE it821x) but Alan is working on the missing pieces
> > (pata_it821x vs libata EH issues).
> >
> > Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >
> > drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c | 11 +++--------
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> Patch is OK but it's mangled by your mailer:
>
> @@ -79,7 +80,7 @@
> =20
> =20
> #define DRV_NAME "pata_it821x"
> =2D#define DRV_VERSION "0.3.6"
> +#define DRV_VERSION "0.3.7"
> =20
> struct it821x_dev
> {
> @@ -460,14 +461,8 @@ static unsigned int it821x_passthru_qc_i
> =20
>
> =2D int dma_enabled =3D 0;
> int i;
> =20
>
> etc.
Ah, non-ASCII char confused the mailer... resend. Sorry for that.
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