Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36

Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-16T08:30:32Z

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:05:21AM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Tue Apr 16 01:02:47 CEST 2002 ide-clean-36
>
> - Consolidate ide_choose_drive() and choose_drive() in to one function.
>
> - Remove sector data byteswpapping support. Byte-swapping the data is supported
> on the file-system level where applicable. Byte-swapped interfaces are
> supported on a lower level anyway. And finally it was used inconsistently.

Are you sure about this? I think file systems support LE/BE, but not
byteswapping because of IDE being LE on a BE system.

> - Eliminate taskfile_input_data() and taskfile_output_data(). This allowed us
> to split up ideproc and eliminate the ugly action switch as well as the
> corresponding defines.
>
> - Remove tons of unnecessary typedefs from ide.h
>
> - Prepate the PIO read write code for soon overhaul.
>
> - Misc small bits here and there :-).
>

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs