Re: [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support

[Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>]

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:02:21 +0400
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:

> Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> 
> > _GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive.  It returns
> > a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to
> > restore it to boot up defaults.
> > 
> [...]
> > @@ -1597,6 +1601,9 @@ int ata_bus_probe(struct ata_port *ap)
> >  /* reset and determine device classes */
> >  ap->ops->phy_reset(ap);
> >  
> > +     /* retrieve and execute the ATA task file of _GTF */
> > +     ata_acpi_exec_tfs(ap);
> > +
> >  for (i = 0; i < ATA_MAX_DEVICES; i++) {
> >  dev = &ap->device[i];
> >
> 
> ata_bus_probe() seems to be called only if driver does not provide own error
> handler? Also would GTF be executed on resume? I hoped it may fix resume
> from RAM problem I have but it looks like this is never executed in my case
> (pata_ali).
> 
> TIA
> 
> -andrey

Hi Andrey
On Friday I submitted another patch which changes where this is executed.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115957671114738&w=2

Hopefully this will work better for you.

Kristen