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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jeff Norden <jeff@math.tntech.edu>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pata_it821x: fix lost interrupt with atapi devices
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:53:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E5F508.8000600@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709041607.l84G7KsT032647@norden.math.tntech.edu>

Jeff Norden wrote:
>  From: Jeff Norden <jnorden@math.tntech.edu>
> 
> Fix "lost" interrupt problem when using dma with CD/DVD drives in some
> configurations.  This problem can make installing linux from media
> impossible for distro's that have switched to libata-only configurations.
> 
> The simple fix is to eliminate the use of dma for reading drive status, etc,
> by checking the number of bytes to transferred.
> 
> This change will only affect the behavior of atapi devices, not disks.
> There is more info at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=242229
> This patch is for 2.6.22.1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Norden <jnorden@math.tntech.edu>

applied



      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 16:07 [PATCH 1/1] pata_it821x: fix lost interrupt with atapi devices Jeff Norden
2007-09-04 18:43 ` Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-06  0:39   ` Alan Cox
2007-09-17  5:00     ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-17 10:00       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-17 11:46         ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-18  9:14           ` Alan Cox
2007-09-18  9:07       ` Alan Cox
2007-09-11  1:53 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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