Re: 2.6.15-rc1: IDE: fix potential data corruption with SL82C105 interfaces

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Nov 12 2005 - 12:45:53 EST


On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:03:34PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-11-12 at 16:55 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > We must _never_ _ever_ on pain of death enable IDE DMA on SL82C105
> > chipsets where the southbridge revision is <= 5, otherwise data
> > corruption will occur.
>
> If you are fixing this driver also set ->serialize = 1; before someone
> with dual channel device gets burned.

Thanks for reminding me - I've included that as well.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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