[PATCH] ide: fix error handling for drives which clear the FIFO on error

If the controller FIFO cleared automatically on error we must not try
and drain it as this will hang some chips.

Based in concept on a broken patch from -mm some while back

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
index 935cb2583770..26ceab1e90bb 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static ide_startstop_t ide_ata_error(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq, u8
                 }
         }
 
-        if ((stat & DRQ_STAT) && rq_data_dir(rq) == READ)
+        if ((stat & DRQ_STAT) && rq_data_dir(rq) == READ && hwif->err_stops_fifo == 0)
                 try_to_flush_leftover_data(drive);
 
         if (hwif->INB(IDE_STATUS_REG) & (BUSY_STAT|DRQ_STAT))
diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
index ef7bef207f48..0c100168c0cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/ide.h
+++ b/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ typedef struct hwif_s {
         unsigned        auto_poll  : 1; /* supports nop auto-poll */
         unsigned        sg_mapped  : 1; /* sg_table and sg_nents are ready */
         unsigned        no_io_32bit : 1; /* 1 = can not do 32-bit IO ops */
+        unsigned        err_stops_fifo : 1; /* 1=data FIFO is cleared by an error */
 
         struct device   gendev;
         struct completion gendev_rel_comp; /* To deal with device release() */