From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:06:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509070623.GV20941@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052431594.13567.30.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, May 08 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 17:34, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Might not be a bad idea, drive->address_mode is a heck of a lot more to
> > the point. I'll do a swipe of this tomorrow, if no one beats me to it.
>
> We don't know if in the future drives will support some random mask of modes.
> Would
>
> drive->lba48
> drive->lba96
> drive->..
>
> be safer ?
I had the same thought yesterday, that just because a device does lba89
does not need it supports all of the lower modes. How about just using
the drive->address_mode as a supported field of modes?
if (drive->address_mode & IDE_LBA48)
lba48 = 1;
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 8:49 [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 16:46 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 17:33 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-07 17:50 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 19:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-07 20:19 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 11:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 12:01 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-12 21:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-05-13 6:44 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 11:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 11:59 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 12:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 12:26 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 12:36 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 13:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 13:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 13:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 13:37 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:47 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 15:49 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-08 16:16 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-08 16:34 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 16:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-09 7:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-08 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-09 7:06 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-05-09 8:28 ` [PATCH][RFC] Sanitize hwif/drive addressing (was Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage) Jens Axboe
2003-05-09 11:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-09 12:03 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 21:45 ` [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-07 22:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 22:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-07 18:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 19:30 ` Jens Axboe
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