Re: [PATCH 2/5] pata_sis: Implement MWDMA for the UDMA 133 capable chips

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 19:21:31 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I'm not convinced because for the majority of drivers the libata timing
> > > interface handles it. SiS needs it just because it does things by
> > > precomputed tables. It's a one off interface.
> > 
> > Controllers based on *Intel* PIIX are in the disagreement with the above
> 
> No the PIIX is quite different. You use the matching PIO timing (which is
> a short lookup and shorter code than even a helper function call). You do
> not use the clipping instead you set bit 3 to ensure that PIO cycles
> occur at low speed but MWDMA runs at the right speed. That is usually a
> win over picking a lower mode as the PIIX can do ATAPI DMA happily.

Thank you for the detailed explanation, I certainly would still be
scratching my head over it if it wasn't for your great help.

> So the only thing you can "share" is what would be a 4 byte table.

You are of course right, I must have been confused by the old driver.

> > paragraph and having generic helper to do conversion (without a clipping)
> > would bring us a little step closer to killing a needless code duplication
> > currently present in their ->set_piomode and ->set_dmamode methods.
> > 
> > [ In case somebody wonders: no, 'old' drivers don't have such duplication
> >   and 'whoever did it didn't port it across' cause said 'whoever'-s were not
> >   into the development of the square wheels.... ]
> 
> There is no duplication in the old drivers because they don't implement
> the needed check and clipping/bit setting that I can see ;)

Seems like the whoever maintained the old driver didn't port across
this critical bugfix. :(

-- 
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz