> One thing I'm worried about is that somehow I'm thinking there are > controllers/devices out there which choke if there PIO data transfer is > interrupted (timing-wise). Is this something I just imagined up? There are a couple of problem controllers. They use the ata_data_xfer_noirq method for ->data_xfer() which blocks local interrupts in the method itself and in those cases we have no choice. Such chips are all ancient thankfully. 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
