On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:45:17AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 01:30 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >ata_eh_analyze_serror() suppresses hotplug notifications if LPM is
> >being used because LPM generates spurious hotplug events.  It compared
> >whether link->lpm_policy was different from ATA_LPM_MAX_POWER to
> >determine whether LPM is enabled; however, this is incorrect as for
> >drivers which don't implement LPM, lpm_policy is always
> >ATA_LPM_UNKNOWN.  This disabled hotplug detection for all drivers
> >which don't implement LPM.
> >
> >Fix it by comparing whether lpm_policy is greater than
> >ATA_LPM_MAX_POWER.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo<[email protected]>
> >Cc: [email protected]
> 
> applied, though putting this into 2.6.38.1 is preferred to changing
> this at -rc7...  stable@ cc'd.

Understood.  As long as it ends up in stable@, either way is okay with
me.  Thank you.

-- 
tejun

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