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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata/sata_mv.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ata/sata_mv.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c index 75fde48..28092bc 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c @@ -1595,6 +1595,24 @@ static unsigned int mv_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc) if ((qc->tf.protocol != ATA_PROT_DMA) && (qc->tf.protocol != ATA_PROT_NCQ)) { + static int limit_warnings = 10; + /* + * Errata SATA#16, SATA#24: warn if multiple DRQs expected. + * + * Someday, we might implement special polling workarounds + * for these, but it all seems rather unnecessary since we + * normally use only DMA for commands which transfer more + * than a single block of data. + * + * Much of the time, this could just work regardless. + * So for now, just log the incident, and allow the attempt. + */ + if (limit_warnings && (qc->nbytes / qc->sect_size) > 1) { + --limit_warnings; + ata_link_printk(qc->dev->link, KERN_WARNING, DRV_NAME + ": attempting PIO w/multiple DRQ: " + "this may fail due to h/w errata\n"); + } /* * We're about to send a non-EDMA capable command to the * port. Turn off EDMA so there won't be problems accessing |