Re: [git patches] ide update

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-19T09:02:56Z

On 8/19/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 23:37 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > + },{ /* 14 */
> > + .name = "Revolution",
> > + .init_hwif = init_hwif_generic,
> > + .channels = 2,
> > + .autodma = AUTODMA,
> > + .bootable = OFF_BOARD,
> > }
>
> This seems rather odd - the driver asks for AUTODMA yet because its IDE
> generic contains no code to retune the device interface for DMA ?

It is fine, grep drivers/ide/setup-pci.c for "d->autodma".
You are confusing 'autodma' fields in ide_hwif_t and ide_pci_device_t.

> BTW whats the status on the CS5535 driver that someone submitted a while
> back ?

lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/20

AFAIK CS5535 driver was never ported to 2.6.x. Somebody needs to
port it to 2.6.x kernel, cleanup to match kernel coding standards and test.

Bartlomiej