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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: hwif->rw_disk() method
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:30:35 +0300
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To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>

Hello.

    Alan/Bart/anybody, could you enlighten me why hwif->rw_disk() method came 
into being at all?
    IIUC, hwif->dma_setup() method could have been used instead which is 
called from the ATAPI drivers and the ide-taskfile.c, while hwif->rw_disk() is 
only called from ide-disk.c.  I'm thinking about replacing this hook in 
hpt366.c (the only its user) an getting rid of it altogether...

MBR, Sergei