Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:17:12 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 DMA question |
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On 2/26/06, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > Or how about an option for the IDE driver to "not do that" that people > > could enable if needed/wanted? > > Or just change the code to "not do that" since we are no longer in the > > mid-1990s? > > Well, yes. That's what I would do, were I still maintaining the IDE layer. > > But that code has become so twisted and confused since then, > that a change like this is probably too risky/challenging for > the current maintainers. It seems really easy to break stuff > when touching parts of that code now, and people don't like it > much when their hard drives get corrupted. > > But perhaps someone may successfully implement this. > Unfortunately my machines only have SCSI devices, so I'd have no way to actually test a patch, otherwise I'd be happy to give it a shot - a parameter to disable the behaviour shouldn't be too difficult to implement, and if the default stays as the current behaviour then it shouldn't be too controversial. I wouldn't mind trying to hack up a patch, but it would be untested...
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