sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives

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 <[email protected]>
Originally-from: Joseph Chan <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jorrit Tijben <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c
index 101d8c219cafede5f3eb3792cd31ab0d9d7fe9e3..0ecd0f6aa2c068865996588ceafab8c95d23ddb8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c
@@ -575,6 +575,19 @@ static void svia_configure(struct pci_dev *pdev)
                tmp8 |= NATIVE_MODE_ALL;
                pci_write_config_byte(pdev, SATA_NATIVE_MODE, tmp8);
        }
+
+       /*
+        * vt6421 has problems talking to some drives.  The following
+        * is the magic fix from Joseph Chan <[email protected]>.
+        * Please add proper documentation if possible.
+        *
+        * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173
+        */
+       if (pdev->device == 0x3249) {
+               pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x52, &tmp8);
+               tmp8 |= 1 << 2;
+               pci_write_config_byte(pdev, 0x52, tmp8);
+       }
 }
 
 static int svia_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)