> That would be the cleanest way to do it but I'm not sure whether all > controllers can live with that. If I understand correctly, Some > controllers just have to have the whole transfer done atomically. I > think Alan knows much better about this. Alan? Those controllers already do a local IRQ disable in their private ->data_xfer method so ought to be ok. - 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