Re: ide_delay_50ms question

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (ankry@pg.gda.pl)
Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:44:37 +0200 (MET DST)

"Alan Cox wrote:"
> > as well, because when I insert an IDE compactflash card things stop for a
> > second or so nad I use a modular driver.
> > And I don't know about removable harddrives but isn't the schedule_timeout
> > solution better for them as well?
>
> Some of the current drivers call it with interrupts disabled. This is one of
> the things that will have to wait until 2.5 is released to really address

AFAIR it (interrupts disabled) is necessary for old pre-IDE 16-bit
controllers.

Andrzej

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