Alan Cox wrote:
Jeff said he preferred that the SFF tf_load followed the spec and we
documented that anyone who needed different overrode it, rather than it
using the ->check_status methods. No driver relies on the current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude 
linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 
linux-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c       2007-11-16 
17:55:11.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c       2007-11-16 
18:11:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -147,7 +147,9 @@
  *     @tf: ATA taskfile register set for storing input
  *
  *     Reads ATA taskfile registers for currently-selected device
- *     into @tf.
+ *     into @tf. Assumes the device has a fully SFF compliant task file
+ *     layout and behaviour. If you device does not (eg has a different
+ *     status method) then you will need to provide a replacement tf_read
  *
  *     LOCKING:
  *     Inherited from caller.
@@ -156,7 +158,7 @@
 {
        struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr;
- tf->command = ata_chk_status(ap);
+       tf->command = ata_check_status(ap);

applied #upstream, thanks


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