On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Yup, you are right. Removing a disk from a controller shall return
> anything with bit 7 at 0 per spec, but removing the controller
> itself will return 0xff. Actually, in my "wait for BSY low" loop
> I added to the probe code for pmac (should be made generic sooner
> or later), I did special case 0xff.
>
> So we should indeed fix the various bits in IDE. 0xff out of
> status, I beleive, never means anything and can always be considered
> as "this interface is gone".
I think thats the wrong approach too. We need to be defensive on things
like IDE probes. We just have to be sure that we -do- eventually say
'its bust', and when we know from hotplug a channel has vanished also
be sure to check the 'its dead jim' flag once I add it
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