[U-Boot] [PATCH] SATA: do not auto-initialize during boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <3B24DCFA-1309-4B92-A4AE-D9943D33269B at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> > and ...), so it isnt a big deal imo.  i asked if Wolfgang wanted it  
> > automated
> > and he preferred making the user do it themselves.
> 
> This seems backwards to me..

ACK here.

> 'sata init' isn't safe.  It seems like you should only be able to call  
> it once.  However I think we can keep issuing it and cause bad things  
> to happen.

No, I think on contrary it should explicitely be possible to call  it
repeatedly, for example when you (dis-) connect or replace devices on
the S-ATA interface(s).


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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