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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>
To: Timo Sigurdsson <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, mripard@kernel.org, wens@csie.org,
	jernej.skrabec@siol.net, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oliver@schinagl.nl, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci_sunxi: Disable DIPM
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:40:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24eb672c-9772-4e3f-e3de-0fe3390c659f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210427230537.21423-1-public_timo.s@silentcreek.de>

Hello!

On 28.04.2021 2:05, Timo Sigurdsson wrote:

> DIPM is unsupported or broken on sunxi. Trying to enable the power
> management policy med_power_with_dipm on an Allwinner A20 SoC based board
> leads to immediate I/O errors and the attached SATA disk disappears from
> the /dev filesystem. A reset (power cycle) is required to make the SATA
> controller or disk work again. The A10 and A20 SoC data sheets and manuals
> don't mention DIPM at all [1], so it's fair to assume that it's simply not
> supported. But even if it were, it should be considered broken and best be
                             ^ was

> disabled in the ahci_sunxi driver.
> 
> Fixes: c5754b5220f0 ("ARM: sunxi: Add support for Allwinner SUNXi SoCs sata to ahci_platform")

    The "Fixes:" tag should immediately precede the signoff tag...

> [1] https://github.com/allwinner-zh/documents/tree/master/

    And this line should be immediately after the patch description.

> Signed-off-by: Timo Sigurdsson <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de>
> Tested-by: Timo Sigurdsson <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de>
[...]

MBR, Sergei

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27 23:05 [PATCH] ata: ahci_sunxi: Disable DIPM Timo Sigurdsson
2021-04-28  5:59 ` Greg KH
2021-04-28  8:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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