> The old function oopsed for the case that you worry about. That is WORSE > than anything else you can come up with. There is absolutely zero upside > to using that old and broken thing. The worst case is uncaught data corruption. An oops is harmless in comparison. Someone using altstatus to enforce DMA timing barriers and getting nothing else will find their disk contents 'degraded'. I'm just putting together a patch that removes ata_altstatus entirely from public use, and that actually looks far nicer. -- 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
