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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sl82c105 driver update
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:44:15PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:32, Russell King wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:33:19PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Enclosed is an update to the sl82c105 driver against 2.4.21-pre3, I'll
> > > produce a 2.5 version once this is accepted by Alan.
> >
> > Its still broken - if it uses DMA, the ide core will call ide_dma_on,
> > which will call config_for_dma(), which will call ide_config_drive_speed,
> > which will then call ide_dma_on, etc.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't have a solution off hand for this. I just wish that
> > the IDE core didn't change in these incompatible ways during a stable
> > kernel release.
>
> No this problem is not here, at least not in 2.4, I did test it ;)
>
> ide_config_drive_speed will call ide_dma_host_on, not ide_dma_on.
>
> Note that I think sl82c105 and ide-pmac are the only ones to redo the
> DMA config on ide_dma_on. Most chipsets only do it on ide_dma_check, but
> I chosed to do it in ide_dma_on too mostly because I found no way to
> re-trigger ide_dma_check from hdparm (well, this might have changed
> since, I have to dbl check).

Correct, and it seems that if you have automatic DMA disabled in the
kernel and then use hdparm -d1, this leads to a lot of trouble.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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