Tejun Heo wrote:
vt6420 completely loses its ability to raise IRQ for ATAPI devices if
ATA_NIEN is diddled with in ->freeze.  Further investigation is
necessary to determine whether this problem is shared on other
controllers but it doesn't seem to be at this point.

Make vt6420's ->freeze only clear IRQ to fix this problem.  This makes
vt6420 relatively more prone to IRQ storms but the controller is way
too braindamaged to worry about that anyway.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Jeff, this fix is verified to fix J. Taimr's case and a few other
reported that 2.6.20-rc5 fixed their ATAPI detection problems too.  We
still have several case to hunt down but getting verified fixes in
early helps separating different causes.  Please include this in
#upstream-fixes.  Thanks.

applied to #upstream-fixes


@@ -204,6 +205,15 @@ static void svia_scr_write (struct ata_p
        outl(val, ap->ioaddr.scr_addr + (4 * sc_reg));
 }
+static void svia_noop_freeze(struct ata_port *ap)
+{
+       /* Some VIA controllers choke if ATA_NIEN is manipulated in
+        * certain way.  Leave it alone and just clear pending IRQ.
+        */
+       ata_chk_status(ap);
+       ap->ops->irq_clear(ap);
+}
+

please send an update patch to conform to the following minor libata policy nit: when calling a hook inside a driver, you should call the hook function directly, rather than bothering with an indirect reference.

        Jeff


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