Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: More on the IDE multiwrite problem | Date | Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:36:51 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Then I would suggest to have the low level drivers register a function > that does the chipset specific stuff. The generic IDE code really > shouldn't know anything about disable_irq()/enable_irq() nor try to > use them.
Not all chipsets have such a facility. That makes handling the early IRQ case really nasty. But doable - suppose instead of multwrite_intr a seperate multwrite_maybe_early_intr is registered , then we kick stuff off.
the maybe_early_intr can handle the quirk case
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