> It's not disks, but rather, interfaces that once had
> problems with unmasked IRQs. Specifically, the CMD640
> and RZ1000 chips, and *maybe* one other ISA chipset.
Ahhh...
> But Linus would rather be safe and sluggish by default,
> and it's hard (but not impossible) to blame the guy.
Dumping PPP packets in the default configuration is just a really *bad*
thing to impress users with. If unmask irq and dma are going to be
disabled by default, then the driver should only transfer 1 sector or do
whatever is *necessary* to ensure that irq latency isn't as ridiculous as
it is presently.
-ben
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