From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: remove stale comments from ide-dma.c
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:36:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BF4043.8080802@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802222224.53642.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> - ide-dma.c is not a separate module
>
> - ide-dma.c is not PCI specific anymore
>
> - DMA is enabled by default nowadays
>
> - link for Intel Zappa BIOS is dead
>
> etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/ide/ide-dma.c | 48 ------------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 48 deletions(-)
>
> Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c
> @@ -11,49 +11,6 @@
> */
>
> /*
> - * This module provides support for the bus-master IDE DMA functions
> - * of various PCI chipsets, including the Intel PIIX (i82371FB for
> - * the 430 FX chipset), the PIIX3 (i82371SB for the 430 HX/VX and
> - * 440 chipsets), and the PIIX4 (i82371AB for the 430 TX chipset)
> - * ("PIIX" stands for "PCI ISA IDE Xcellerator").
> - *
> - * Pretty much the same code works for other IDE PCI bus-mastering chipsets.
> - *
> - * DMA is supported for all IDE devices (disk drives, cdroms, tapes, floppies).
..
Those top comments still look relevant, or at least as relevant
as the rest of the file (and subsystem) itself. :)
Sigh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-22 21:24 [PATCH] ide: remove stale comments from ide-dma.c Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-02-22 21:36 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-02-22 22:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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