2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Sergei Shtylyov upstream commit: c018f1ee5cf81e58b93d9e93a2ee39cad13dc1ac The big driver change in 2.4.19-rc1 introduced a regression for many HPT370[A] chips -- DMA stopped to work completely, only causing endless timeouts... The culprit has been identified (at last!): it turned to be the code resetting the DMA state machine before each transfer. Stop doing it now as this counter- measure has clearly caused more harm than good. This should fix the kernel.org bug #7703. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/ide/hpt366.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/ide/hpt366.c +++ b/drivers/ide/hpt366.c @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ * the register setting lists into the table indexed by the clock selected * - set the correct hwif->ultra_mask for each individual chip * - add Ultra and MW DMA mode filtering for the HPT37[24] based SATA cards + * - stop resetting HPT370's state machine before each DMA transfer as that has + * caused more harm than good * Sergei Shtylyov, or */ @@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ #define DRV_NAME "hpt366" /* various tuning parameters */ -#define HPT_RESET_STATE_ENGINE +#undef HPT_RESET_STATE_ENGINE #undef HPT_DELAY_INTERRUPT #define HPT_SERIALIZE_IO 0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/