On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:30:32 +0900 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > libata switched to IRQ-driven IDENTIFY when IRQ-driven PIO was > introduced. This has caused a lot of problems including device > misdetection and phantom device. > > ATA_FLAG_DETECT_POLLING was added recently to selectively use polling > IDENTIFY on problemetic drivers but many controllers and devices are > affected by this problem and trying to adding ATA_FLAG_DETECT_POLLING > for each such case is diffcult and not very rewarding. > > This patch makes libata always use polling IDENTIFY. This is > consistent with libata's original behavior and drivers/ide's behavior. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> One possibility however would be to invert the flag we have now so we can try turning -on- IRQ polling on some devices in future and maybe figure it out that way around ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
