> Well, the BMDMA status register read and cleared iff no qc is in > flight so the patch isn't likely to break any of that. That said, > it's true that this is a big change this late in the release cycle. Well the kind of thing that bothers me is disk corruption. On the PIIX4 for example a simple read of some of the control registers during a PIO block transfer corrupts the data silently.... (See errata #15). 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
