Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 DMA question

From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: Henrik Persson <root@fulhack.info>, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 DMA question
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:10:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602262110.55324.nick@linicks.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4401EF2C.2000004@fulhack.info>

> > I can see the reasoning where the device just doesn't function properly
> > with DMA at all (like on some Compact Flash-to-IDE adapters where the
> > card claims to support DMA but the DMA lines aren't wired through in the
> > adapter properly). In that case not disabling DMA would render it
> > useless. The IDE layer could keep track of whether DMA was previously
> > working on that device however, and not disable DMA on reset if it had
> > previously been working.
> 
> Definitely.  Where these things get sticky is in defining "DMA was working".
> And keeping track of it separately for reads and writes.

Hey guys, keep the CC intact, I missed these.

Yes, all the above points are valid and right, I think.

As a user we know if DMA is OK on a ide device, right?  Then let user have 
option to set it permanent, else carry on as the code does now when idex 
needs a reset.

Nick.