On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 00:41 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sorry, to be clear I would not want to change the core code to bang > AltStatus in the middle of the SRST twiddles... > > The core code only fails (in theory) for PATA+MMIO cases, and the > easiest fix should be to read some innocuous vendor-specific > register. > That allows the core code to stay unchanged, requiring only two > drivers > (pdc and sil680) to be updated with this flushing behavior. Ok. Will do that then. > All other discussion of ata_pause() seemed like an unrelated side > discussion, unless I missed something? Yes, I think we drifted because ata_pause is the other known case where MMIO needs flushing. - 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
