Re: [PATCH] ide-cd: Handle strange interrupt on the Intel ESB2

[Alan]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 00:23:03 +0100
"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks good but aren't this trying to fix the same ICH
> issue that is fixed in libata by ap->ops->irq_clear(ap)?
> 
> [ please see Tejun's mail: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/94 ]
> 
> If so shouldn't we apply this fix for all ICH5/6/7/8 chipsets?

Possibly. Thats one reason I made it a quirk bit. I'd certainly expect it
to be a group of related chipsets.

> Also shouldn't the fix be in IRQ handler?  Currently the fix is limited
> to ide-cd driver which seems to be the wrong place as the problem
> is supposed to happen also when using other IDE device drivers
> or/and other ATA/ATAPI devices?

The problem has only be observed with CD devices doing PIO ATAPI
commands. I am not aware of an Intel errata document that characterises
this errata so anything else so cannot guess further. Perhaps Intel can
advise ?

Alan
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