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Message-Id: <200709112308.26095.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:08:25 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] hpt366: MWDMA filter for SATA cards

On Saturday 08 September 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
> Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> 
> >    The patch was 4/4 of course. :-<
> >     Probably I was too esctatic about the code. ;-)
> 
>     Or rarher me. :-)
> 
> >> The Marvell bridge chips used on HighPoint SATA cards do not seem to 
> >> support
> >> the MWDMA modes (at least that caould be seen in their so-called 
> >> drivers :-),
> >> so the driver needs to account for this -- to achieve this:
> 
> >> - add mdma_filter() method from the original patch by Bartlomiej 
> >> Zolnierkewicz
> >>   with his consent, also adding the method callout to ide_rate_filter();
> 
> >> - installed the method for all chips to only return empty mask if a 
> >> SATA drive
> >>   is detected onHPT372{AN]/374 chips...
> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>

I pushed all your bugfix patches that were in IDE tree to Linus so
(after "the pull") please resync and resend the outstanding patches.

> >> ---
> >> This patch against the current Linus' tree and unfortunately I was 
> >> able to only
> >> compile test it since that tree gives MODPOST warning and dies early 
> >> on bootup.
> >> Will hopefully try to test if/when I have time... :-)
> 
>     And it was still the same -- I'd bisected if I had time...

:(

> >> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
> >> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
> >> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> >>  /*
> >> - * linux/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c        Version 1.12    Aug 25, 2007
> >> + * linux/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c        Version 1.13    Aug 22, 2007
> 
> >    Errr... and version shuold Aug 02 -- thought I've fixed that. :-/
> 
>     Hehe, thanks.  Those versions turned to be quite PITA a to keep.

I think we should get rid of these "old-style" versions and convert
all IDE host drivers to use "new-style" versions (DRV_VERSION define
+ MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION)).  Any volunteers? :)

Thanks,
Bart
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