[PATCH] ata: uncomment ata_timing for XFER_PIO_SLOW

This patch uncomments ata timings for XFER_PIO_SLOW, otherwise ata_timing_find_mode() returns NULL and kernel crashes in pacpi_set_dmamode() after null-pointer dereference. The same problem was mentioned recently in debug patch v3.7-rc5-72-gcd705d5 ...

Message posted on the December 14th, 2012 - 6:10 AM ET

PNY GeForce 8800GTS video card test

While we are still awaiting the arrival of ATI/AMD’s R600 card to hit the market, nVidia has taken advantage of their dominant position in high range cards. While the 320MB GeForce 8800GTS and GeForce8600GT and Ultra are destined for the middle of ...

Review published on the February 4th, 2007 - 6:00 PM ET

[PATCH] ata: implement MODE SELECT command

The cache_type file in sysfs lets users configure the disk cache in write-through or write-back modes. However, ata disks do not support writing to the file because they do not implement the MODE SELECT command. This patch adds a translation from ...

Message posted on the July 4th, 2012 - 7:20 AM ET

[PATCH] ata: Fix DVD not dectected at some Haswell platforms

There is a quirk patch 5e5a4f5d5a08c9c504fe956391ac3dae2c66556d fix the 4 ports IDE controller 32bit PIO mode. Recently, the problem was showed at Haswell platform which includes 2 ports IDE controller. So introduce a qurik patch to disable 32bit ...

Message posted on the January 30th, 2013 - 12:20 AM ET

[PATCH] ata: sata_highbank: Fix section mismatch

From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Building multi_v7_defconfig leads to the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0xf7d8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable ahci_highbank_driver to the function ...

Message posted on the October 7th, 2012 - 6:50 PM ET

[PATCH]ata:fixed coding style issues related to braces

Fixed coding style issues related to braces found by checkpatch.pl in drivers/ata/ahci.c Signed-off-by: Jeffrin Jose <ahiliation@yahoo.co.in> drivers/ata/ahci.c | 33 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff ...

Message posted on the June 4th, 2012 - 4:10 PM ET

[PATCH] ata: pata_arasan: Initialize cf clock to 166MHz

From: Vipul Kumar Samar <vipulkumar.samar@st.com> PATA arasan driver expects the clock to be set to 166 MHz for proper functioning. This patch sets clk to 166 MHz in probe. Signed-off-by: Vipul Kumar Samar <vipulkumar.samar@st.com> ...

Message posted on the November 8th, 2012 - 10:20 AM ET

[PATCH] ata: Fix build error in sata_highbank

From: Mark Langsdorf <Mark Langsdorf> Allow sata_highbank to build even if no other users of libahci.o are built. Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@calxeda.com> drivers/ata/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 ...

Message posted on the September 28th, 2012 - 1:30 PM ET

[PATCH] ata: pata_at91.c bugfix for high master clock

The AT91SAM9 microcontrollers with master clock higher then 105 MHz and PIO0, have overflow of the NCS_RD_PULSE value in the MSB. This lead to "NCS_RD_PULSE" pulse longer then "NRD_CYCLE" pulse and pata_at91 driver does detect ...

Message posted on the December 10th, 2010 - 3:10 PM ET

[PATCH] ata: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller

The Calxeda SATA phy intermittently fails to bring up a link with Gen3 Retrying the phy hard reset can work around the issue, but the drive may fail again. In less than 150 out of 15000 test runs, it took more than 10 tries for the link to be ...

Message posted on the May 1st, 2013 - 5:40 PM ET

[PATCH] ata: add CONFIG_SATA_HOST config option

Add CONFIG_SATA_HOST config option (for selecting SATA Host support) to make setup easier on PATA-only systems. Additionally this allows us to save ~9.5k of the output code size (x86-64) on such systems: text data bss dec hex ...

Message posted on the February 9th, 2011 - 9:20 AM ET

[PATCH] ATA: pata_at91.c bugfixes

* Fix "initial_timing" structure initialisation. The "struct ata_timing" must contain 10 members, but ".dmack_hold" member was not initialised. * The AT91SAM9 microcontrollers use special coding scheme for SMC_SETUP, ...

Message posted on the April 20th, 2011 - 7:50 AM ET

[PATCH] ata: pata_at91.c bugfix for initial_timing initialisation

The "struct ata_timing" must contain 10 members, but ".dmack_hold" member was forgotten for "initial_timing" initialisation. This patch fixes such a problem. Signed-off-by: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com> ...

Message posted on the March 28th, 2011 - 8:00 AM ET

[PATCH] ata: ahci_platform: fix DT probing

From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> The change in commit 904c04feaf13ed "ahci_platform: Add the board_ids..." doesn't work for the DT probing case as platform_get_device_id returns NULL. Pick the default ahci_port_info in ...

Message posted on the November 15th, 2011 - 10:10 PM ET

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