Re: [PATCH 2/6] ide: move SFF I/O code to ide-io-sff.c

Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19T18:46:28Z

Alan Cox wrote:

>>>BTW if you moved to ioreadX you could get rid of almost all the readb/inb
>>>special casing.

>> And burden the driver code with function calls ISO in/out instructions, at
>>least on x86. It's somewhat arguable move.

> And exactly how do you think the IDE accessors in the file get called ?

Tried looking at how in*()/out*() are defined on x86?

> It's already making function calls, without the benefit of inlining and

I'm afraid you're wrong here.

MBR, Sergei