Re: [PATCH] Fixup ahci suspend / resume

[Mark Lord]

Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the current ahci doesn't handle suspend / resume cycles too well.
> On certain machines the disk just locks up and refuses to work after a
> resume.
>
> This is due to a initialisation error after resume; ahci has fo[u]r
> registers containing DMA addresses (which are obviously allocated by the
> kernel). Of course there is no guarantee that these addresses are
> unchanged across reboots. So ahci loads the suspended image, and after
> the suspended image is started the driver is presented with different
> DMA addresses, whereas the chip still uses the original ones.
>
> This patch rearranges the suspend / resume code to properly initialise
> those registers after a resume. It also contains some initialisation
> fixes to make the driver behave more spec-compliant.
..

Is ahci the *only* interface afflicted with this problem?
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