sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 31 May 2010 14:26:48 +0000 (16:26 +0200)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:49:50 +0000 (13:49 -0400)
vt6421 has problems talking to recent WD drives.  It causes a lot of
transmission errors while high bandwidth transfer as reported in the
following bugzilla entry.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173

Joseph Chan provided the following fix.  I don't have any idea what it
does but I can verify the issue is gone with the patch applied.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Originally-from: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Reported-by: Jorrit Tijben <sjorrit@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/ata/sata_via.c

index 101d8c219cafede5f3eb3792cd31ab0d9d7fe9e3..0ecd0f6aa2c068865996588ceafab8c95d23ddb8 100644 (file)
@@ -575,6 +575,19 @@ static void svia_configure(struct pci_dev *pdev)
                tmp8 |= NATIVE_MODE_ALL;
                pci_write_config_byte(pdev, SATA_NATIVE_MODE, tmp8);
        }
+
+       /*
+        * vt6421 has problems talking to some drives.  The following
+        * is the magic fix from Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>.
+        * Please add proper documentation if possible.
+        *
+        * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173
+        */
+       if (pdev->device == 0x3249) {
+               pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x52, &tmp8);
+               tmp8 |= 1 << 2;
+               pci_write_config_byte(pdev, 0x52, tmp8);
+       }
 }
 
 static int svia_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)