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SubjectRe: [PATCH libata #promise-sata-pata] sata_promise: unbreak 20619
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> The PATA support patch for sata_promise appears, from
> code inspection, to break the PATA-only 20619 chip.
>
> The patch removes the SATA flag from the TX2plus SATA+PATA
> boards' common flags, with the intention of adding it back
> via the _port_flags[] entries for those boards' SATA ports.
>
> However, it unconditionally marks ports 0 and 1 as SATA
> for all boards. This causes the 20619 (TX4000) to announce
> its first two PATA ports as SATA | ATA_FLAG_SLAVE_POSS.
>
> I don't have a TX4000 so I don't know what the actual
> consequences of this bug are, but surely this isn't Ok.
>
> Fixed by moving the port 0 and 1 settings as SATA into
> the TX4 and TX2plus specific initialisation code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>

Given that I agree with your RFC, this means I can drop all these
#promise-sata-pata patches, and kill the #promise-sata-pata branch soon,
right?

Jeff



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