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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Fajun Chen <fajunchen@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PATA Sil680 Disabling IRQ
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C4B5BE.7010709@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8202f4270802261647t505cccf7ra3c81e5fccc9366a@mail.gmail.com>

Fajun Chen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Attached is the source code to Identify Device through sg (courtesy of
> Mark Lord).  I intentionally change the data transfer from
> SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV to SG_DXFER_TO_DEV to expose the problem.  When the
> code is run on SATA Sil3124 controller,  it's working well. But when
> it is run on PATA Sil680,  IRQ was disabled right away (see dmesg log
> below). I have a old kernel 2.6.18 rc2 but I suspect the same problem
> exists in latest kernel release as well.  Please execute above code in
> your system and see what happens.

root has permission to do anything -- including misprogram the device 
resulting in a lockup / data corruption / nuclear explosion.

We do not work around problems that only present themselves when a 
privileged administrator is doing something really wrong.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-27  0:47 PATA Sil680 Disabling IRQ Fajun Chen
2008-02-27  0:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-02-28  0:20   ` Fajun Chen
2008-02-28 20:22     ` Alan Cox
2008-02-28 22:11       ` Fajun Chen
2008-02-28 22:24         ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-28 23:10         ` Alan Cox
2008-02-29  1:07           ` Fajun Chen
2008-02-29 11:21             ` Alan Cox

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