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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Is ATA partially broken in -STABLE?
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To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:48:43 +0100 (CET)
Cc: Jon Larssen <jonlarssen@hotmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
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It seems Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <200203220933.g2M9XGT90073@freebsd.dk>, Søren Schmidt writes:
> >Its a known problem, the old way of solving it was:
> 
> Ok - is there a good reason for not using spl calls to block the
> interrupt until the tsleep(), or is it just an oversight? I guess
> maybe you are trying to avoid the delay associated with deferring
> the interrupt, but it must open up a number of races, especially
> if the ATA interrupt line is shared with something else.

The driver used asleep to avoid the race before the MFC, one of
those got lost in the MFC, sorry...

-Søren

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