> I still don't think it's worth the trouble. There's currently only one > reported device which forgets to raise IRQ on media error. The behavior Most people wouldn't realise what is going on. > > Old IDE says it works for PATA. For SATA I can see it might need more > > care and you might simply not be able to get the info. > > Old IDE often locks up the machine hard after timeouts. I'm all for The code paths are racy - it didn't use to in 2.4 (except for the promise drain bug) > gathering more info but benefit vs. risk equation just doesn't look good > here. Why take risk for a rare device which forgets to raise IRQ on > media error? If such behavior is wide spread among PATA drives && we > can verify that TF register access after timeout is safe for PATA > controllers, sure, but currently we aren't sure about either. We lose IRQs in lots of other cases. Promise PATA is particularly bad at forgetting to give us the completion interrupt. Alan - 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
