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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ide-cd: handle fragmented packet commands gracefully
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From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:19:58 +0200

> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:50:22AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:55:27 Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > There are some devices in the wild that clear the DRQ bit during the
>> > last word of a packet command and therefore could use a "second chance"
>> > for that last word of data to be xferred instead of simply failing the
>> > request. Do that by attempting to suck in those last bytes in PIO mode.
>> >
>> > In addition, the ATA_ERR bit has to be cleared for we cannot be sure the
>> > data is valid otherwise.
>> >
>> > See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13399 for details.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
>
> can you pick that one too, please. I can't seem to find it on patchwork.

Yep, I'll dig into the archives to get it, I had this on my TODO
list.

Thanks!


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