Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:42:54 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ahci: Fix long standing Marvell regressions |
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Alan Cox wrote: > The actual fix for the moment is very simple. If the user has included > the pata_marvell driver let it drive the ports. If they've only selected > for SATA support give them the AHCI driver which will run the port a fraction > faster. Allow the user to control this decision via ahci.marvell_enable as > a module parameter so that distributions can ship 'it works' defaults and > smarter users (or config tools) can then flip it over it desired. > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> > --- > > drivers/ata/Kconfig | 6 ++++-- > drivers/ata/ahci.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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That's far more reasonable, and I'd be happy to queue that with your full email text...
Unless you object, I'll roll this up with a couple other libata fixes for 2.6.27-rc.
Jeff
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