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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-10 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1ea6be8e0704100635ydbf1538i782e796c99891e5d@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-10 14:19 ` IDE driver in polling mode 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 16:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-11 8:39 ` Michael
2007-04-11 8:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-11 15:10 ` Michael
2007-04-11 15:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 13:39 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:40 ` Mark Lord
2007-04-12 13:43 ` Mark Lord
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