> Reason: I am building a real-time system using RTAI. I do not need to > access the HDD while in real-time mode, but I must access another > peripheral which shares the interrupt with libata. I want do disable > the libata interrupts while in real-time mode, to improve the timing > characteristics of the real-time peripheral.
The nIEN bit in the device registers control interrupt generation on ATA devices. However ATA devices don't generate interrupts except on command completion or during command processing so if you have no I/O outstanding you won't have any interrupts anyway. With funky new stuff like AHCI and NCQ this isn't so simple but for simple ATA as with the ata_piix driver it is. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
