Tejun Heo wrote: > IMHO, losing media error information is much better than locking up a > machine hard. We can start white listing known good controllers but I'm > skeptical how much benefit it will bring. Just a data point, even ICHs lock up after PHY event if the wrong TF register is accessed. I just don't think tempting with TF regs after timeout is worth the cost. -- 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