Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE problems in 2.6.12-rc1-bk1 onwards (was Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 02 May 2005 18:47:15 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2005-05-01 at 18:59, Richard Purdie wrote: > Solution: ide_unregister() should return failure and pass responsibility for > handling it to ide-cs or it should always succeed. I'd favour the latter as > the ide layer should really handle its own cleanup. Maybe a parameter should > be added to ide_unregister() to select the behaviour if the drive is busy/in > use? If the hardware is gone, we want it to happen regardless for example...
This is what the -ac tree has done for some time. It tried to unregister and if that fails will wait and retry. It also sets the I/O operations to a set of null operations to ensure that there are no further unneccessary writes/reads from the empty bus slot.
Alan
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