It is legitimate (although annoying and silly) for a PCI IDE controller not to be assigned an interrupt and to be polled. The libata-sff code should therefore not try and request IRQ 0 in this case. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c --- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 2008-01-02 16:04:19.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 2008-01-02 16:12:39.000000000 +0000 @@ -808,7 +808,10 @@ if (rc) goto err_out; - if (!legacy_mode) { + if (!legacy_mode && pdev->irq) { + /* We may have no IRQ assigned in which case we can poll. This + shouldn't happen on a sane system but robustness is cheap + in this case */ rc = devm_request_irq(dev, pdev->irq, pi->port_ops->irq_handler, IRQF_SHARED, DRV_NAME, host); if (rc) @@ -816,7 +819,7 @@ ata_port_desc(host->ports[0], "irq %d", pdev->irq); ata_port_desc(host->ports[1], "irq %d", pdev->irq); - } else { + } else if (legacy_mode) { if (!ata_port_is_dummy(host->ports[0])) { rc = devm_request_irq(dev, ATA_PRIMARY_IRQ(pdev), pi->port_ops->irq_handler, - 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