* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/03/2011 06:36 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Could we read the log area, first, verify it contains signature, write > > it back? > > Pavel > > Yes, but that doesn't guarantee no data corruption caused by handing > over from one driver to another. Waiting a few seconds? Is there any sufficiently high number of X where waiting X seconds would make it safe to touch the hardware? (i.e. it would guarantee that pending commands are flushed, etc.) Thanks, Ingo -- 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