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From: linas@austin.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:26:10 -0500
To: Trevor Woerner <ppc339@vtnet.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: ide interrupts
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On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:36:51AM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>
> There seems to be a lot of code in the IDE subsystem relating to
> interrupts. Is there a way to set a device in polled (i.e.
> non-interrupt) mode? Maybe some way to run the tasklet/bh periodically?

Why?

> Does the IDE system want to monitor my ATA device's Ready_NotBusy
> interrupt?

Why?

--linas

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