From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:55:25 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] SATA: do not auto-initialize during boot
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Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <200812111607.10866.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
> 
> having init_sata() be automatic though would prevent hotplugging ... but maybe 
> people dont care about that ...

No - if you also allow to run "sata init" manually. the thing is that
it just should be done automatically if you use "normal" commands.

> there's no need to make u-boot unnecessarily safe for the people who dont 
> understand the system

But if we can fail without a crash, we should do.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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