From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:17:41 -0500 Message-ID: <46A7A1D5.7020003@freescale.com> References: <20070725165318.5331.23795.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <46A79DE0.8060405@ru.mvista.com> <46A79F14.9040409@freescale.com> <46A7A17C.8090505@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from az33egw01.freescale.net ([192.88.158.102]:52664 "EHLO az33egw01.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759490AbXGYTRx (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:17:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46A7A17C.8090505@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Vitaly Bordug , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Sergei Shtylyov wrote: >> It doesn't buy us anything in here, but it's conceivable that someone >> may want to write a driver that uses a shift in the I/O accessor >> rather than an array of port offsets, > > > It wouldn't be IDE driver then, and neither it would be libata which > also does this another way this (despite pata_platform uses shifts too > -- not in the accessors, so no speed loss). The device tree is not just for Linux. >> equivalent of the cntlzw innstruction, and shift makes it clear that >> the stride must be power-of-two). Plus, using shift is consistent >> with what we do on ns16550. > > > Why the heck should we care about the UART code taling about IDE?! Consistency? > So, let me consider your argument purely speculative and invalid. ;-) Consider it whatever you want. :-) -Scott