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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE update for 2.6.7-rc3 [4/12]
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:58:59 -0500
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> It's used for the DMA channel number, or NO_DMA for falling back on PIO.

It is a chipset/platform specific information and has no meaning outside
of the chipset driver, thus it should be in the chipset local state data
structures and not in the common one.

Ben.