On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 23:39 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by synchronization. But, freezing is indeed > for shutting the chip up. If the port is frozen, EH doesn't touch > active qcs nor tries to issue new command. The port is thawed/used only > after the port & device are put into known good state via successful > reset. Is this what you're talking about? Sort of. I wanted to point out that this can occur IRQ is issued on chip ->freeze returns ->intr finally arrives and is serviced Alan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html