Hi Arnd, On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 2:59 PM Arnd Bergmann <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:30 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> > wrote: > > The reason drivers/ide is doing that may be related to IDE hard drive > > quirks. The old WD Caviar drives didn't obey disabling the IDE interrupt > > at the drive level. On PC, that worked fine, as IRQs 14 and 15 weren't > > shared with other devices. On systems with shared interrupts, that > > broke badly, and led to an interrupt storm. > > So presumably anyone that has one of those old drives will not be > able to move to drivers/ata then? I see that drivers/ata doesn't do > the transfers in interrupt mode, so it would seem to rely on masking > at the device level.
I don't know. This was an issue I debugged on a friend's Amiga in 1995 or so ;-) All bad WD Caviars may have died in the meantime... BTW, it wouldn't be the first time a drive quirk handling wasn't ported from drivers/ide/ to drivers/ata/. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds