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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Michael <michaelzwrk@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: IDE driver in polling mode
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:44:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461BA2BB.6040101@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461B9D04.2000109@ru.mvista.com>

> Michael wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to know whether it is possible to use IDE driver (ide-disk)
>> in polling mode, instead of using IRQ.

This should be doable, with a small amount of hacking.
Mostly, you just need to use add_timer() to set up a polling
function that simply calls ide_intr() and then does add_timer()
again for the next poll.

For your purposes, it could be as simple as five lines of C.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-10 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-10 13:35 IDE driver in polling mode Michael
2007-04-10 14:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-04-10 14:19   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-04-10 14:44   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-04-10 15:31     ` Michael
2007-04-10 16:11   ` Alan Cox
2007-04-10 16:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 16:18       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 16:29       ` Alan Cox
2007-04-11  8:39         ` Michael
2007-04-11  8:39           ` Michael
2007-04-11  8:47           ` Alan Cox
2007-04-11 15:10             ` Michael
2007-04-11 15:10               ` Michael
2007-04-11 15:23               ` Alan Cox
2007-04-11 15:23                 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 13:39               ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:39                 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:40                 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:40                   ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:43             ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:43               ` Mark Lord

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