Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix HDIO_DRIVE_RESET handling

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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
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