Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude
linux.vanilla-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
linux-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c 2007-07-26
15:02:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c 2007-08-08
13:38:39.257549616 +0100
@@ -1614,6 +1622,9 @@
* devices. This function also issues ATA_CMD_INIT_DEV_PARAMS
* for pre-ATA4 drives.
*
+ * FIXME: ATA_CMD_ID_ATA is optional for early drives and right
+ * now we abort if we hit that case.
+ *
* LOCKING:
* Kernel thread context (may sleep)
*
@@ -1741,10 +1752,13 @@
/*
* The exact sequence expected by certain pre-ATA4 drives is:
* SRST RESET
- * IDENTIFY
- * INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS
+ * IDENTIFY (optional in early ATA)
+ * INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS (later IDE and ATA)
* anything else..
* Some drives were very specific about that exact sequence.
+ *
+ * Note that ATA4 says lba is mandatory so the second check
+ * shoud never trigger.
*/
if (ata_id_major_version(id) < 4 || !ata_id_has_lba(id)) {
err_mask = ata_dev_init_params(dev, id[3], id[6]);
-
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