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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hwif->rw_disk() method
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:10:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110171015.5320fa17@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A514AB.2080605@ru.mvista.com>

>     Alan/Bart/anybody, could you enlighten me why hwif->rw_disk() method came 
> into being at all?

When you needed to wrap entire disk operations. The ->dma_ methods only
wrap DMA commands.

For the current support hardware it can probably go, no idea if anyone
embedded uses it any more and can't be bothered to check 8)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-10 16:30 hwif->rw_disk() method Sergei Shtylyov
2007-01-10 17:10 ` Alan [this message]
2007-01-10 17:05   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-01-10 21:47     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-01-11 13:38   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-01-12 10:27     ` Alan

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