Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 08:41 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> else is lost. Also, please note that most traditional IDE controllers >> tend to have their own IRQ. > > Not really. You normally have one IRQ per controller for any plug in > card and that is quite often shared. > I see. But even with the shared IRQ, unconditionally clearing IRQ for short duration wouldn't cause much problem, would it? @ Out of curiosity, how old does a controller have to be to not have the ctl shadow register? -- tejun - : 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