Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs

David S. Miller
2002-09-25T20:02:54Z

From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:19:46 -0400

IDE uses ide_insw instead of plain insw specifically to
resolve this kind of issue, and you are trying to defeat
the mechanism designed to help you. I smell a fish here.

They're trying to abstract out as much as possible in 2.5.x, maybe a
bit too much :-)