Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix HDIO_DRIVE_RESET handling | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:06:41 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > BTW Your fix adds framework which can be re-used for fixing locking of > >IDE > > settings (+ it finally makes sense to dust-off my IDE settings rework which > > was always low-prio and was never posted :) and maybe it could be also used > > for drive->special handling. > > Alan's remark made me think again and I'm still not quite sure whether I > can (and indeed should) fix ide_abort() and allow for out of band
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I don't see a reliable way to fix ide_abort() - once the request/command is started hardware can be already in a state that makes aborting hard if not impossible.
Thanks, Bart
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