sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 31 May 2010 14:26:48 +0000 (16:26 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:11:05 +0000 (11:11 -0700)
commitda86663542979859c5b0e8f52aaf6f1745254b27
tree4a8db6a42bc45cff205fe0a9a60e4eee0ea9835d
parent8d2b5b63d3586f3e258b8c5cffbdc45e743fcafa
sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives

commit 8b27ff4cf6d15964aa2987aeb58db4dfb1f87a19 upstream.

vt6421 has problems talking to recent WD drives.  It causes a lot of
transmission errors while high bandwidth transfer as reported in the
following bugzilla entry.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173

Joseph Chan provided the following fix.  I don't have any idea what it
does but I can verify the issue is gone with the patch applied.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Originally-from: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Reported-by: Jorrit Tijben <sjorrit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/ata/sata_via.c