On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 16:56 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > The only thing that I'm wondering about a bit is that ata_pause so far > > uses read of altstatus which _is_ a taskfile register. It's my > > understanding that we should avoid doing so in that case. > > Technically, altstatus is in the control block rather than the command block, > so it doesn't really always behave the same as the regular "taskfile" regs. So would altstatus be good enough to flush SRST toggles as well or do you expect problems ? Ben. - 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