Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> In a presentation of true workmanship, pata_ali asserts IRQ >> permanantly if the TF status register is read more than once when >> there's no device attached to the port. > .. > > Is using the altstatus reg (rather than status reg), when possible, > a better idea here? I dunno. It probably differs case-by-case. In general, status reg should be safer as it is supposed to clear IRQ. -- tejun - 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
