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    libata: add ATA_HORKAGE_NOLPM for Pioneer BDR-207M and BDR-205 · ea08aec7
    Niklas Cassel authored
    Commit 1527f692 ("ata: ahci: Add Green Sardine vendor ID as
    board_ahci_mobile") added an explicit entry for AMD Green Sardine
    AHCI controller using the board_ahci_mobile configuration (this
    configuration has later been renamed to board_ahci_low_power).
    
    The board_ahci_low_power configuration enables support for low power
    modes.
    
    This explicit entry takes precedence over the generic AHCI controller
    entry, which does not enable support for low power modes.
    
    Therefore, when commit 1527f692 ("ata: ahci: Add Green Sardine
    vendor ID as board_ahci_mobile") was backported to stable kernels,
    it make some Pioneer optical drives, which was working perfectly fine
    before the commit was backported, stop working.
    
    The real problem is that the Pioneer optical drives do not handle low
    power modes correctly. If these optical drives would have been tested
    on another AHCI controller using the board_ahci_low_power configuration,
    this issue would have been detected earlier.
    
    Unfortunately, the board_ahci_low_power configuration is only used in
    less than 15% of the total AHCI controller entries, so many devices
    have never been tested with an AHCI controller with low power modes.
    
    Fixes: 1527f692 ("ata: ahci: Add Green Sardine vendor ID as board_ahci_mobile")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Reported-by: default avatarJaap Berkhout <j.j.berkhout@staalenberk.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNiklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
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