Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:56:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:56:07 -0500 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:55962 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:56:06 -0500 Subject: Re: S4bios support for 2.5.63 From: Alan Cox To: Roger Luethi Cc: bert hubert , Nigel Cunningham , Pavel Machek , Andrew Grover , ACPI mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030303003940.GA13036@k3.hellgate.ch> References: <20030226211347.GA14903@elf.ucw.cz> <20030302133138.GA27031@outpost.ds9a.nl> <1046630641.3610.13.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams> <20030302202118.GA2201@outpost.ds9a.nl> <20030303003940.GA13036@k3.hellgate.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1046700547.5890.24.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 03 Mar 2003 14:09:07 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 14 On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 00:39, Roger Luethi wrote: > The only thing that came up at the time was a suggestion to replace BUG_ON > with while (which I didn't try because I'd like to keep my data). That isnt far off what you want. IDE has proper command queuing functionality and providing you are suspending in a sleeping context you can do what you are trying to do through the IDE layer politely. Take a look at how the various ide taskfile ioctls issue commands. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/