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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: libata. BMDMA handling updates
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:31:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442B26C4.4090205@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143481360.4970.49.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> This is the minimal patch set to enable the current code to be used with
> a controller following SFF (ie any PATA and early SATA controllers)
> safely without crashes if there is no BMDMA area or if BMDMA is not
> assigned by the BIOS for some reason.
> 
> Simplex status is recorded but not acted upon in this change, this isn't
> a problem with the current drivers as none of them are for simplex
> hardware. A following diff will deal with that.
> 
> The flags in the probe structure remain ->host_set_flags although Jeff
> asked me to rename them, simply because the rename would break the usual
> Linux rules that old code should break when there are changes. not
> compile and run and then blow up/eat your computer/etc. Renaming this
> later is a trivial exercise once a better name is chosen.

applied



      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-30  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-27 17:42 PATCH: libata. BMDMA handling updates Alan Cox
2006-03-29  4:17 ` Tejun Heo
2006-03-30  0:31 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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