sata_via: magic vt6421 fix for transmission problems w/ WD drives
vt6421 has problems talking to recent WD drives. It causes a lot of transmission errors while high bandwidth transfer as reported in the following bugzilla entry. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15173 Joseph Chan provided the following fix. I don't have any idea what it does but I can verify the issue is gone with the patch applied. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Originally-from: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw> Reported-by: Jorrit Tijben <sjorrit@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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