nIEN is set to allow the device to interrupt the host controller.
Some host controllers have the ablity to block and hold sticky that
transaction to the CPU.
You set nIEN and we need a whole new set of state diagrams for the driver.
nIEN = 0, interrupt driver
nIEN = 1, polling driver
You may not switch this in the middle of the execution of a command block.
If you want to try this, go for it, and leave me off the CC for the mess
you will make of your data.
On 9 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 11:57, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > iirc IDE is capable of doing its own masking per device(nIEN) and in fact
> > does even do unconditional sti's in its isr paths. So i would think it
> > would be one of the not so painful device drivers to take care of.
>
> If I remember rightly nIEN doesnt work everywhere. Also many IDE
> interfaces may be using legacy IRQ wiring rather than PCI irq lines.
>
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