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authorBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>2010-01-05 02:07:27 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-01-12 04:49:23 -0500
commitf75d4a238770d83d3a0475ce7f34e3fa37de161e (patch)
tree522f9aa82d79993fb670e638757bae1240c03ca8 /Documentation/i2o
parent4cd7d9247ffa2a27508c69563b66713519c196f5 (diff)
icside: bring back ->maskproc method
Bring back ->maskproc method since it is still needed for proper operation, as noticed by Russell King: > This change is bogus. > > writeb(0, base + ICS_ARCIN_V6_INTROFFSET_1); > readb(base + ICS_ARCIN_V6_INTROFFSET_2); > > writeb(0, base + ICS_ARCIN_V6_INTROFFSET_2); > readb(base + ICS_ARCIN_V6_INTROFFSET_1); > > This sequence of code does: > > 1. enable interrupt 1 > 2. disable interrupt 2 > 3. enable interrupt 2 > 4. disable interrupt 1 > > which results in the interrupt for the second channel being enabled - > leaving channel 1 blocked. > > Firstly, icside shares its two IDE channels with one DMA engine - so it's > a simplex interface. IDE supports those (or did when the code was written) > serializing requests between the two interfaces. libata does not. > > Secondly, the interrupt lines on icside float when there's no drive connected > or when the drive has its NIEN bit set, which means that you get spurious > screaming interrupts which can kill off all expansion card interrupts on > the machine unless you disable the channel interrupt on the card. > > Since libata can not serialize the operation of the two channels like IDE > can, the libata version of the icside driver does not contain the interrupt > stearing logic. Instead, it looks at the status after reset, and if > nothing was found on that channel, it masks the interrupt from that > channel. This patch reverts changes done in commit dff8817 (I became confused due to non-standard & undocumented ->maskproc method, anyway sorry about that). Noticed-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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