Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759092AbYFXLFO (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:05:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753392AbYFXLE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:04:59 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:60614 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751935AbYFXLE6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:04:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SylxU21Cf4Y/OR/LPWzSL1IL0E2ioOJ3HFHfx/IeasoatjDX+Kdm9d91iDo23Yepco YNd1j33/ebJi4P6aPJFPfLcIzu7dgS36ASDO0vdvqDO81Gbn5mOqEjgAYcY8HqTk3YeC lZtnBNybvy0SaZyOKziw/LMq98AVn/PfupMnE= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Elias Oltmanns Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: Fix HDIO_DRIVE_RESET handling Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:06:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap References: <87k5gmz596.fsf@denkblock.local> <200806240041.42796.bzolnier@gmail.com> <87skv3s3d9.fsf@denkblock.local> In-Reply-To: <87skv3s3d9.fsf@denkblock.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806241306.42054.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 27 On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [...] > > BTW Your fix adds framework which can be re-used for fixing locking of > >IDE > > settings (+ it finally makes sense to dust-off my IDE settings rework which > > was always low-prio and was never posted :) and maybe it could be also used > > for drive->special handling. > > Alan's remark made me think again and I'm still not quite sure whether I > can (and indeed should) fix ide_abort() and allow for out of band [...] I don't see a reliable way to fix ide_abort() - once the request/command is started hardware can be already in a state that makes aborting hard if not impossible. Thanks, Bart -- 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/