On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > BTW Your fix adds framework which can be re-used for fixing locking of > >IDE > > settings (+ it finally makes sense to dust-off my IDE settings rework which > > was always low-prio and was never posted :) and maybe it could be also used > > for drive->special handling. > > Alan's remark made me think again and I'm still not quite sure whether I > can (and indeed should) fix ide_abort() and allow for out of band [...] I don't see a reliable way to fix ide_abort() - once the request/command is started hardware can be already in a state that makes aborting hard if not impossible. Thanks, Bart -- 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