From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:05:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:05:04 -0400 Received: from marine.sonic.net ([208.201.224.37]:21104 "HELO marine.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:04:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20010627090351.A7443@sonic.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:03:51 -0700 From: David Hinds To: Andre Hedrick , Gunther Mayer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhinds@bolt.sonic.net Subject: Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards) In-Reply-To: <3B38EE96.A6C11980@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Andre Hedrick on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:29:47AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:29:47AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > I can not help if you have a device that not compliant to the rules. > ATA-2 is OBSOLETED thus we forced (the NCITS Standards Body) the CFA > people to move to ATA-4 or ATA-5. > > That device is enabling with its ablity to assert its device->host > interrupt regardless of the HOST...that is a bad device. > > Send me the manufacturer and I will tear them apart for making a > non-compliant device. Then figure out a way to de-assert the like > regardless if it exists without hang the rest of the driver. I don't understand the ATA spec issue, but *every* PCMCIA ATA device I know of (including all SmartMedia, CompactFlash, etc) suffers from this problem. It is not an isolated manufacturer. As far as I know, the IDE driver has always had the problem that it may trigger interrupts before it installs a handler. Are you saying that is only true of pre-ATA-4 devices, or only devices that deviate from the spec? -- Dave