Re: [PATCH] 3.19-rc7: add quirk for 1c28:0122 (rev 14) SATA controller

From: Tim Sander
Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 - 15:15:37 EST


Hi Bjorn

Am Montag 02 Februar 2015, 08:55:33 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> [+cc Alex]
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Tim Sander <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The long name for this device is
> > Lite-On IT Corp. / Plextor M6e PCI Express SSD [Marvell 88SS9183] (rev 14)
> >
> > Background: the error description on bugzilla
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42679
> > inspired me to check if my brand new m4 pci ssd could work with a quirk.
> > Its device representation is not visible before this patch.
> > After this patch it appears as a normal device. Formatting
> > and mounting worked so far.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Sander <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks a lot for the patch. Can you open a new report at
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org and attach the complete dmesg and "lspci
> -vv" output without this patch, and also a dmesg log *with* this
> patch? I like to keep a little documentation around in case we
> restructure this code in the future.
Basically its the same issue as the linked bug report, so reporting this twice
seems a little backward to me?

> Also, since the vendor and device IDs are used only once, we probably
> won't add them to pci_ids.h (see the comment at the top of the file).
> Just use the bare constants in the quirk.

Mh, thats what i had first. For patch submission i created the header entries
as it seemed cleaner as you can deduce the manufacturer from the names.
But then its really not that important.

Tim
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