Re: serial flow control appears broken

[Robert Hancock]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > I think that PIO transfers only have to be done with interrupts disabled 
> > on really old, evil controllers (without unmask set). I don't think 
> > libata ever disables interrupts during transfers(?)
>
> Currently libata PIO is mostly done in the IRQ path. Albert Lee was doing
> some work on that but its actually very hard to fix without doing polled
> PIO.

Ah, right. Misread the code.
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