On Tue, 08 May 2007 19:30:24 +0800
Albert Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Problem:
>   Kernel got "irq 5: nobody cared" when using
>   libata + polling IDENTIFY + Promise 20275 adapter + Benq DW1620 drive.
> 
>   Detail message available in bug 8441 
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8441).
> 
> Cause:
>   The Benq DW1620 drive raises INTRQ during polling IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE, 
>   even if nIEN = 1.
> 
> Proposed fix:
>   Ack the possibly unexpected irq in ata_interrupt().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Albert Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

NAK

We can't do this. A PIO data transfer could take far far too long to be
under IRQ block (its already a problem on a big 32bit box when we bounce
buffer it sometimes).

Alan
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