From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: A note on libata passthru patch Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:44:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4308F5BB.8040506@pobox.com> References: <4308F40E.3010109@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:4748 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbVHUVoe (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:44:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4308F40E.3010109@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" I'm certain there are lots of vendor-specific commands that might assume exclusive bus access, if not exclusive host access. All of this makes a reasonable case for having libata stop other host activity before/while performing any passthru command. Cheers -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. mlord@pobox.com