From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hwif->rw_disk() method
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:05:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A51CEA.9040608@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070110171015.5320fa17@localhost.localdomain>
Hello.
Alan wrote:
>> 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.
Yeah, good point. But it's not likely that the HighPoint driver actually
needs this wrapper for PIO or even MW 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)
Nobody does, as far I can see, except this wretched driver... :-)
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-10 17:05 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
2007-01-10 17:05 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-01-10 21:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-01-11 13:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-01-12 10:27 ` Alan
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