Patch 1/3 for libata hotswapping. Properly masks out interrupts for
Promise SATAII150 Tx2Plus/Tx4 controllers. More comments in patch
header.
Luke Kosewski
Lukasz Kosewski wrote:
> Patch 1/3 for libata hotswapping. Properly masks out interrupts for
> Promise SATAII150 Tx2Plus/Tx4 controllers. More comments in patch
> header.
>
> Luke Kosewski
>
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> 15.09.05 Luke Kosewski <[email protected]>
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> * A patch to the sata_promise driver in libata for it to correctly mask
> out hotplug interrupts on SATAII150 Tx4/Tx2 Plus controllers.
> * This is resend #3. It no longer applies to a -mm tree, but to
> 2.6.14-rc1. Therefore, the entry for board_2057x no longer has
> ATA_FLAG_SATA commented out.
You need to add a ->host_stop() hook that frees pdc_host_priv, otherwise
you have a memory leak on module remove/controller unplug.
Once fixed, this patch could go in immediately, it looks like.
Jeff