Re: [stable] [patch 10/50] libata: force hardreset if link is inpowersave mode

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:27:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Chris Wright wrote:
> >
> > -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > ---------------------
> > 
> > From: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Inhibiting link PM mode doesn't bring the link back online if it's
> > already in powersave mode.  If SRST is used in these cases, libata EH
> > thinks that the link is offline and fails detection.  Force hardreset
> > if link is in powersave mode.
> 
> This isn't upstream. Maybe there's some reason it's not needed upstream, 
> but it would be nice to know.

To quote Tejun when he sent this patch:
	---
	Patch for -stable only.  Devel branch now uses hardreset by
	default so this type of promotion logic isn't necessary anymore.


thanks,

greg k-h
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