Re: [git patches] ide update

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On 8/19/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 23:37 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > +     },{     /* 14 */
> > +             .name           = "Revolution",
> > +             .init_hwif      = init_hwif_generic,
> > +             .channels       = 2,
> > +             .autodma        = AUTODMA,
> > +             .bootable       = OFF_BOARD,
> >       }
> 
> This seems rather odd - the driver asks for AUTODMA yet because its IDE
> generic contains no code to retune the device interface for DMA ?

It is fine, grep drivers/ide/setup-pci.c for "d->autodma".
You are confusing 'autodma' fields in ide_hwif_t and ide_pci_device_t.

> BTW whats the status on the CS5535 driver that someone submitted a while
> back ?

lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/20

AFAIK CS5535 driver was never ported to 2.6.x.  Somebody needs to
port it to 2.6.x kernel, cleanup to match kernel coding standards and test.

Bartlomiej