[PATCH] libata: always use polling IDENTIFY
libata switched to IRQ-driven IDENTIFY when IRQ-driven PIO was
introduced. This has caused a lot of problems including device
misdetection and phantom device.
ATA_FLAG_DETECT_POLLING was added recently to selectively use polling
IDENTIFY on problemetic drivers but many controllers and devices are
affected by this problem and trying to adding ATA_FLAG_DETECT_POLLING
for each such case is diffcult and not very rewarding.
This patch makes libata always use polling IDENTIFY. This is
consistent with libata's original behavior and drivers/ide's behavior.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index 8832763..f8ec389 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -1473,16 +1473,12 @@
}
tf.protocol = ATA_PROT_PIO;
-
- /* presence detection using polling IDENTIFY? */
- if (flags & ATA_READID_DETECT)
- tf.flags |= ATA_TFLAG_POLLING;
+ tf.flags |= ATA_TFLAG_POLLING; /* for polling presence detection */
err_mask = ata_exec_internal(dev, &tf, NULL, DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
id, sizeof(id[0]) * ATA_ID_WORDS);
if (err_mask) {
- if ((flags & ATA_READID_DETECT) &&
- (err_mask & AC_ERR_NODEV_HINT)) {
+ if (err_mask & AC_ERR_NODEV_HINT) {
DPRINTK("ata%u.%d: NODEV after polling detection\n",
ap->id, dev->devno);
return -ENOENT;