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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: hwif->rw_disk() method
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:05:46 +0300
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To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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