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-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/ahci.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
index 9519c77..b8bea10 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
@@ -3004,6 +3004,14 @@ static int ahci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
if (pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL && !marvell_enable)
return -ENODEV;
+ /* Promise's PDC42819 is a SAS/SATA controller that has an AHCI mode.
+ * At the moment, we can only use the AHCI mode. Let the users know
+ * that for SAS drives they're out of luck.
+ */
+ if (pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE)
+ dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &pdev->dev, "PDC42819 "
+ "can only drive SATA devices with this driver\n");
+
/* acquire resources */
rc = pcim_enable_device(pdev);
if (rc)
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