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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: IDE driver in polling mode
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:43:07 -0400
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michael <michaelzwrk@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

Alan Cox wrote:
> Michael <michaelzwrk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't it work just to call ide_intr() explicitly from some polling
>> function, as Mark suggested?
> 
> No. See the ATA spec - polling command issue is subtly different.

I beg to differ, and have posted a patch to demonstrate it.

Cheers!