Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:32:43 +0100 (BST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: serial flow control appears broken |
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> Currently libata PIO is mostly done in the IRQ path. Albert Lee was doing > some work on that but its actually very hard to fix without doing polled > PIO.
Hmm, when the drive signals it is ready for a PIO data transfer can't just the interrupt handler mask the originating interrupt and post a softirq to handle the case? That should be rather straightforward.
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