From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ide: Add tx4939ide driver
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:19:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809271819.19510.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080913.005904.07457691.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
On Friday 12 September 2008, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:34:06 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
[...]
> > >>>+ __ide_flush_dcache_range((unsigned long)addr, size);
> >
> > >> Why is this needed BTW?
> >
> > > Do you mean __ide_flush_dcache_range? This is needed to avoid cache
> > > inconsistency on PIO drive. PIO transfer only writes to cache but
> > > upper layers expects the data is in main memory.
> >
> > Hum, then I wonder why it's MIPS specific...
>
> SPARC also have it. And there were some discussions for ARM IIRC.
I was under the impression that it has been addressed by Tejun at
the higher-layer level (for both ide/libata) long time ago and that
MIPS/SPARC code are just a left-overs which could be removed now?
Thanks,
Bart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 16:08 [PATCH 1/2] ide: Add tx4939ide driver Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-09 16:44 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-09 17:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-10 15:12 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-10 15:06 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-13 13:37 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-09 17:50 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-10 15:32 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-10 15:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-10 16:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-11 15:03 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-11 15:18 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-10 23:02 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-11 15:52 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-12 15:34 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-12 15:59 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-12 16:44 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-12 17:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-13 12:32 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-16 21:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-16 21:39 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-27 16:19 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2008-09-27 22:09 ` Tejun Heo
2008-09-30 13:07 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-30 15:09 ` James Bottomley
2008-10-04 2:56 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-07 12:09 ` Jens Axboe
2008-09-28 8:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-09-11 22:33 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-12 14:37 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-12 15:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-13 21:48 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-14 13:05 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-16 10:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-16 15:20 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-16 15:32 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-16 16:24 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-16 21:02 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-14 20:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-15 14:01 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2008-09-16 21:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-17 15:12 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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