Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: More on the IDE multiwrite problem | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 18 Dec 1999 21:16:58 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> writes:
Mark> TenThumbs wrote: >> Do you have a patch to try?
Mark> Yup. Attached.
Mark> Could you tell me more about your system? Eg.. what IDE chipset Mark> is having the problem, does it share interrupts with anything, Mark> and is your kernel SMP, or UP?
Isn't there a way to disable the interrupt in the IDE controller's registers? Using disable_irq is nasty since many IDE controllers, in particular on non x86, run with shared interrupts.
Time to introduce HWIF(drive)->{enable,disable}_device_irq() ?
Jes
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