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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> > If it doesn't interfere with plain PIO mode, fine.
>>
>> I agree. There definitely needs to still be support for IDE ports that
>> don't have DMA capability.
>
> There is - it's just if the platform doesn't implement the dma_* APIs you
> get a problem.

Note that there are other things missing on m68k and m32r, that's why
Al added the

| depends on !(M32R || M68K) || BROKEN

commit 9317fd4c60962d3a9423b5f9bb5d1b10cf8a0699
Author: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Sun Sep 24 23:40:00 2006 +0100

    [PATCH] libata won't build on m68k and m32r

    no ioread*(), for one thing

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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