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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:17:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A7A1D5.7020003@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A7A17C.8090505@ru.mvista.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 16:53 [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 16:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 17:06   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 17:54     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:01       ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 18:19         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:39           ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:30             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 16:24               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:47             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-25 18:29         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:46           ` Scott Wood
2007-07-26 17:21             ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-26 17:45               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:36       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-31 23:56         ` Alan Cox
2007-08-06 17:19           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-01 13:11         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 17:12     ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 17:29   ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Alan Cox
2007-07-26 19:28   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-25 17:59 ` Kumar Gala
2007-07-25 19:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:05   ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:16     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:17       ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-07-25 19:35         ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:31           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-01 12:39             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-06 17:16               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-25 19:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 19:48   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:54     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 20:01       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 20:09         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 20:39   ` Alan Cox
2007-07-26 19:41     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-26 19:52       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 20:13         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-26 20:11       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-26 19:28 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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