On Sat, 27 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Objections? Can everybody confirm that a clean current git tree with just > this doesnt' have any huge downsides? Perhaps more importantly, can anybody imagine any realistic possible downsides at all? Both waits have an _eventual_ timeout (although the busy wait is pretty damn long), so even the most perverse controller should at worst just wait a fairly long time. And we're doing nothing but reading the status register, so I don't see any reasonable breakage. Hmm? Linus - : 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