Re: pata_it821x completely broken

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From: Alan Cox
Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 11:10 am

> New patch below, this time with DMA forced on RAID volumes - as my firmware

The underlying problem is that the newer libata rewrites the dev->id data
in ways that we can't then patch up. I've actually been hacking on this a
bit today. The existing it821x code was working fine and it does the
needed patching, it just needs to do it in a different place, and that in
turn needs a new ap->ops->read_id() method so it can be hooked.

On the bright side that also allows us to implement a pata_mfm/rll
driver at last.

Alan

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pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Fri Jul 4, 12:53 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Fri Jul 4, 1:22 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Fri Jul 4, 2:39 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Fri Jul 4, 2:46 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sat Jul 5, 3:41 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Sat Jul 5, 8:49 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Sun Jul 6, 12:37 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Sun Jul 6, 1:51 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sun Jul 6, 2:03 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sun Jul 6, 2:46 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sun Jul 6, 2:50 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Sun Jul 6, 4:01 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Mon Jul 7, 11:07 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Thu Jul 10, 1:35 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Fri Jul 11, 11:43 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Fri Jul 11, 1:14 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sat Jul 12, 2:42 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Sun Jul 13, 4:35 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sun Jul 13, 4:47 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Sun Jul 13, 5:10 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Sun Jul 13, 7:08 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Tue Jul 22, 10:59 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Tue Jul 22, 11:10 am)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Ondrej Zary, (Tue Jul 22, 12:16 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Rene Herman, (Tue Jul 22, 12:35 pm)
Re: pata_it821x completely broken, Alan Cox, (Tue Jul 22, 1:39 pm)