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linas@austin.ibm.com
8fe64399cc [PATCH] powerpc/PCI hotplug: de-convolute rpaphp_unconfig_pci_adap
Remove general baroqueness.  The function rpaphp_unconfig_pci_adapter()
is really just three lines of code, once all the dbg printks are removed.
And its called in only one place. So replace the call by the thre lines.
Also, provide proper semaphore locking in the affected function
disable_slot()

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
8a85a70db8 [PATCH] powerpc/PCI hotplug: remove remove_bus_device()
The function rpaphp_eeh_remove_bus_device() is a dupe of
eeh_remove_bus_device(). Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
7fec77e479 [PATCH] powerpc/PCI hotplug: merge config_pci_adapter
Remove general baroqueness.  The function rpaphp_config_pci_adapter()
is really just one line of code, once all the dbg printks are removed.
And its called in only one place. So replace the call by the one line.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
eca845c718 [PATCH] powerpc/PCI hotplug: remove rpaphp_fixup_new_pci_devices()
The function rpaphp_fixup_new_pci_devices() has been migrated to
pcibios_fixup_new_pci_devices() in
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pci_dlpar.c
This patch removes the old version.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
01657868be [PATCH] powerpc/PCI hotplug: remove rpaphp_find_bus()
The function rpaphp_find_pci_bus() has been migrated to
pcibios_find_pci_bus() in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pci_dlpar.c
This patch removes the old version.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
Keck, David
53044f3574 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: shpchp: AMD POGO errata fix
This patch fixes the AMD POGO errata on the hotplug controller where the
platform will lock up or reboot if PERR/SERR generation is enabled and a
slot is sent an enable command.  This fix disables PERR/SERR generation
before a slot is sent the enable command by first saving related
registers, turning off SERR/PERR generation, enabling the slot, then
restoring the registers.

Signed-off-by: David Keck <david.keck@amd.com>
Cc: Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
linas
3c0c644188 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: PCI panic on dlpar add (add pci slot to running partition)
Removing and then adding a PCI slot to a running partition results in
a kernel panic. The current code attempts to add iospace for an entire
root bus, which is inappropriate, and silently fails.  When a pci device
tries to use the iospace, a page fault is taken, as the iospace had not
been mapped, and of course the page fault cannot be resolved.

This only occurs for PCI adapters using pio, which may be why it hadn't
been seen earlier (this seems to have been broken for a while).
This patch has survived testing of dozens of slot add and removes.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
linas
dd8c499668 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug/powerpc: module build break
The RPAPHP hoplug driver will not build as a module, because it calls
on pci_claim_resource(), which is not exported. This exports the symbol.
Problem reported by Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>

A grep indicates that building drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c
would have trouble building as a module for the same reason.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:12 -08:00
Pavel Machek
654143ee3a [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: fix up Kconfig help text
Remove reference to pcihpfs that no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Pavel Machek
072888fa60 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: fix up coding style issues
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Grant Grundler
8169b5d238 [PATCH] PCI: make it easier to see that set_msi_affinity() is used
I missed this usage in drivers/pci/msi.h:

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#define set_msi_irq_affinity    set_msi_affinity
#else
#define set_msi_irq_affinity    NULL
#endif

set_msi_affinity() is declared and exclusively used in msi.c.
Here's a better way so (hopefully) history doesn't repeat itself.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f8d6571333 [PATCH] PCI: drivers/pci/pci.c: #if 0 pci_find_ext_capability()
This patch #if 0's the unused global function pci_find_ext_capability().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-31 18:00:11 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
f6bc2666ed [PATCH] fix deadlock in drivers/pci/msi.c
The lock validator caught another one: drivers/pci/msi.c is accessing
&irq_desc[i].lock with interrupts enabled (!).

The fix is to disable interrupts properly.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31 11:30:18 -08:00
Jason Gaston
012b265f76 [PATCH] Intel ICH8 SATA: add PCI device IDs
Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <Jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 19:31:54 -05:00
Russell King
b15d686a2b [PATCH] Add pci_bus_type probe and remove methods
Move the PCI bus device probe/remove methods to the bus_type
structure.  We leave the shutdown method alone since there
are compatibility issues with that.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:04 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
977127174a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-01-09 18:41:42 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
54c762fe62 [PATCH] PCI: drivers/pci: some cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- hotplug/pciehp_core.c: make the needlessly global hpdriver_context
                         static
- #if 0 the following unused functions:
  - pci.c: pci_bus_max_busnr()
  - pci.c: pci_max_busnr()
  - proc.c: pci_proc_attach_bus()
  - remove.c: pci_remove_device_safe

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:20 -08:00
Kristen Accardi
c64b5eead9 [PATCH] acpiphp: only size new bus
Only size the bus that has been added.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:20 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9f3f468129 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: fix up the sysfs file in the compaq pci hotplug driver
The Compaq PCI Hotplug driver was creating 2 sysfs files that contained
nothing but debug information, and had way more than "one value" in
them.  This patch converts the code to use debugfs for these files
instead.

Compile tested only.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:20 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
121082e2ab [PATCH] PCI: Reduce nr of ptr derefs in drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c
Here's a small patch to reduce the nr. of pointer dereferences in
drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c

Benefits:
 - micro speed optimization due to fewer pointer derefs
 - generated code is slightly smaller
 - small line length cleanup
 - better readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:20 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
c2dea65530 [PATCH] PCI: Reduce nr of ptr derefs in drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehprm_acpi.c
Here's a small patch to reduce the nr. of pointer dereferences in
drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehprm_acpi.c

Benefits:
 - micro speed optimization due to fewer pointer derefs
 - generated code is slightly smaller
 - better readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:20 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
f5c99dfc11 [PATCH] PCI: Reduce nr of ptr derefs in drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_pci.c
Here's a small patch to reduce the nr. of pointer dereferences in
drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_pci.c

Benefits:
 - micro speed optimization due to fewer pointer derefs
 - generated code should be slightly smaller
 - better readability

note: due to lack of both hardware and cross-compile tools this patch is,
      unfortunately, completely untested.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
efbf62e9f4 [PATCH] PCI: Reduce nr of ptr derefs in drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c
Here's a small patch to reduce the nr of pointer dereferences in
drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c

Benefits of this patch:
 - micro speed optimization due to fewer pointer derefs
 - generated code is slightly smaller
 - tiny line length and whitespace cleanup
 - better readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
ac7dc65ac0 [PATCH] PCI: Export pci_cfg_space_size
The powerpc PCI code sets up the PCI tree without doing config space
accesses in most cases, from the firmware tree. However, it still wants
to call pci_cfg_space_size() under some conditions, thus it needs to
be made non-static (though I don't see a point to export it to modules).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Dominik Brodowski
4988794177 [PATCH] PCI: use bus numbers sparsely, if necessary
Add a warning if a child bus may be inaccessible because the
parent bridge has wrong secondary or subordinate bus numbers.
Note that this may or may not happen on "transparent" bridges,
as can be seen in bug #5557.

Also, if we do not fix up the assignment of bus numbers, try to
make use of the bus number space available.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:19 -08:00
Rajesh Shah
0eb3bcfd08 [PATCH] pciehp: allow bridged card hotplug
This patch fixes bugs in the pciehp driver that prevent hot-add
of a card with PCI bridges on it.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:18 -08:00
Thomas Schaefer
c7ab337f91 [PATCH] pciehp: handle sticky power-fault status
This patch disables power fault, MRL sensor and presence detection
interrupts when a PCIe slot is powered-off and enables those
interrupts when it is powered-on again. This is necessary to prevent
the associated events from causing an endless cycle of interrupts
due to the power-fault bit, which stays set till power is restored
to the slot.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Schaefer <thomas.schaefer@kontron.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:18 -08:00
Daniel Yeisley
9d265124d0 [PATCH] PCI Quirk: 1K I/O space granularity on Intel P64H2
I've implemented a quirk to take advantage of the 1KB I/O space
granularity option on the Intel P64H2 PCI Bridge.  I had to change
probe.c because it sets the resource start and end to be aligned on 4k
boundaries (after the quirk sets them to 1k boundaries).  I've tested
this patch on a Unisys ES7000-600 both with and without the 1KB option
enabled.  I also tested this on a 2 processor Dell box that doesn't have
a P64H2 to make sure there were no negative affects there.

Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:18 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
81f154427c [PATCH] shpchp: Implement get_address callback
The following patch implements .get_address callback of
hotplug_slot_ops for SHPCHP driver. With this patch, we
can see bus address of hotplug slots as follows:

	$ cat address
	0000:0b:01

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:18 -08:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
cd5b50be8d [PATCH] PCI Hotplug/powerpc: more removal of duplicated code
The RPAPHP code contains two routines that appear to be gratuitous copies
of very similar pci code.  In particular,

   rpaphp_claim_resource ~~ pci_claim_resource
      (there is a minor, non-functional difference)

   rpadlpar_claim_one_bus == pcibios_claim_one_bus
      (the code is identical)

This patch removes the rpaphp versions of the code.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:18 -08:00
linas@austin.ibm.com
d681db4aed [PATCH] PCI Hotplug/powerpc: remove duplicated code
The RPAPHP code contains a routine that duplicates some existing code.
This patch removes the rpaphp version of the code.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:17 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
bd62e27140 [PATCH] shpchp: fix improper wait for command completion
Current SHPCHP driver uses msleep_interruptible() function to wait for
a command completion event. But I think this would cause an unnecessary
long wait until timeout, if command completion interrupt came before
task state was changed to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. This patch fixes this
issue. With this patch, command completion becomes faster as follows:

o Without this patch

	# time echo 1 > power

	real    0m4.708s
	user    0m0.000s
	sys     0m0.524s

o With this patch

	# time echo 1 > power

	real    0m2.221s
	user    0m0.000s
	sys     0m0.532s

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:17 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
f467f6187f [PATCH] shpchp: fix improper write to Command Completion Detect bit
Current SHPCHP driver writes a '0' to the Command Completion Detect
bit to clear the Command Complete Interrupt Pending. But according to
the SHPC spec (See 4.7.3.1 System Interrupts), SHPCHP driver must
write '1'. This patch fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:17 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
0455986cce [PATCH] shpchp: fix improper mmio mapping
Current SHPCHP driver seems not to map MMIO region properly. This
patch fixes this bug. This patch also cleanup the code.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:17 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
87d6c55931 [PATCH] shpchp: fix improper reference to Mode 1 ECC Capability" bit
The hpc_get_mode1_ECC_cap() function of SHPCHP driver seems to refer
the wrong bit for refering the "Mode 1 ECC Capability" bit. This bug
seems not to cause any problem so far. But I think this should be
fixed. This patch fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:16 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
6558b6ab14 [PATCH] shpchp: fix improper reference to Slot Avail Regsister
The hpc_get_max_bus_speed() function of the SHPCHP driver seems to
refer wrong bits in the "Slot Avail Register I" and "Slot Avail
Register II". This patch fixes this bug. And this also cleanup the
code.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:16 -08:00
Kenji Kaneshige
e00e57efa3 [PATCH] shpchp: replace pci_find_slot() with pci_get_slot()
This patch replaces pci_find_slot() with pci_get_slot() in the SHPCHP
driver. This enables SHPCHP driver to work on multiple PCI segment
systems.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:16 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
2555f7bdd3 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove dead code
The Coverity checker spotted that we already did return -ENOMEM
if (!p_mem_node).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:16 -08:00
Jordan, William P
88d69a1dff [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: ibmphp_pci.c copy-n-paste fix
I noticed what appears to be a cut/paste error in
drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_pci.c:

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:16 -08:00
Sergey Vlasov
8c9ad508c8 [PATCH] PCIE: make bus_id for PCI Express devices unique
The bus_id string must be unique for all devices of that bus in the
system, not just for devices with the same parent - otherwise multiple
symlinks with identical names appear in /sys/bus/pci_express/devices.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:15 -08:00
Kristen Accardi
3efd273b4d [PATCH] pci: call pci_read_irq for bridges
Call pci_read_irq() for bridges too, so that the pin value
is stored for bridges that require interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:14 -08:00
Kristen Accardi
514d207db1 [PATCH] pci: use pin stored in pci_dev
Use the stored value of the interrupt pin rather than try to read
the config again.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:13 -08:00
Kristen Accardi
ffeff788d6 [PATCH] pci: store PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN in pci_dev
Store the value of the INTERRUPT_PIN in the pci_dev structure
so that it can be retrieved later.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09 12:13:13 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
de25968cc8 [PATCH] fix more missing includes
Include fixes for 2.6.14-git11.  Should allow to remove sched.h from
module.h on i386, x86_64, arm, ia64, ppc, ppc64, and s390.  Probably more
to come since I haven't yet checked the other archs.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
db9edfd7e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
2006-01-04 18:44:12 -08:00
Kay Sievers
312c004d36 [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
aaadff8119 Merge branch 'master' 2005-12-24 09:31:05 -05:00
Milton Miller
52f975ea21 [PATCH] PCI express must be initialized before PCI hotplug
PCI express hotplug uses the pcieportbus driver so pcie must be
initialized before hotplug/.  This patch changes the link order.

Signed-Off-By: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-16 11:25:25 -08:00
Jesse Barnes
2bd0fa3b62 [PATCH] add boot option to control Intel SATA/PATA combined mode
Combined mode sucks.  Especially when both libata and the legacy IDE
drivers try to drive ports on the same device, since that makes DMA
rather difficult.

This patch addresses the problem by allowing the user to control which
driver binds to the ports in a combined mode configuration.  In many
cases, they'll probably want the libata driver to control both ports
since it can use DMA for talking with ATAPI devices (when
libata.atapi_enabled=1 of course).  It also allows the user to get old
school behavior by letting the legacy IDE driver bind to both ports.
But neither is forced, the patch doesn't change current behavior unless
one of combined_mode=ide or combined_mode=libata is passed
on the boot line.  Either of those options may require you to access
your devices via different device nodes (/dev/hd* in the ide case
and /dev/sd* in the libata case), though of course if you have udev
installed nicely you may not notice anything.  :)

Let me know if the documentation is too cryptic, I'd be happy to expand
on it if necessary.  I think most users will want to boot with
'combined_mode=libata' and add 'options libata atapi_enabled=1'
to their modules.conf to get good DVD playing and disk behavior
(haven't tested CD or DVD writing though).

I'd much rather things behave sanely by default (i.e. DMA for devices on
both ports), but apparently that's difficult given the various chip
bugs and hardware configs out there (not to mention that people's
drives may suddenly change from /dev/hdc to /dev/sdb), so this boot
option may be the correct long term fix.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-12-13 03:05:03 -05:00