From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755408AbYLTCAU (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:00:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752638AbYLTCAI (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:00:08 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50838 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752250AbYLTCAG (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:00:06 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: Fix ata_id_has_dword_io to return DWORD I/O support properly Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:58:03 -0600 Message-ID: <494C512B.6090304@shaw.ca> References: <494A5BBF.8000807@inf.tu-dresden.de> <494A837A.50801@garzik.org> <20081218181015.2e160d5c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000c41bb86e1.ss.shawcable.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) In-Reply-To: <20081218181015.2e160d5c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> This seems like a risky assumption... > > Its wrong on various counts > > - ata_id_major_version can't tell early ATA versions apart > - on anything later than the early ISA IDE paddles (the ones that > basically were just bus decoders) its invisible to the drive > > Except for legacy ISA bus controllers (and even there it is questionable) > I would favour simply ignoring it. 32-bit IO wouldn't work on any ISA controller, would it? What happens if you do 32-bit IO port access on something on the ISA bus?