From: Sergei Shtylyov Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:42:19 +0000 (+0200) Subject: hpt366: fix HPT370 DMA timeouts X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c018f1ee5cf81e58b93d9e93a2ee39cad13dc1ac;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git 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 Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- 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, or */ @@ -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[] = {