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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:22:47 +0000 (11:22 -0700)
commite7fd492cada7c8d79093ee5ed5482046ed9e7261
tree26c413251a3ddbb72cdd5de0e6dfa5dd85c7b6fe
parenta4fd5acd21386fe469c4815e37c963562041a615
sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives

commit 8b27ff4cf6d15964aa2987aeb58db4dfb1f87a19 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/ata/sata_via.c