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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:07:57 -0500
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 DMA question
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Jesper Juhl wrote:
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> 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.

Cheers
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