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

Sergei Shtylyov
2009-01-19T18:02:09Z

Hello.

Alan Cox wrote:

>>>[ I'm also not happy with the naming but couldn't think of a better one. ]

>> Legacy perhaps?

> Legacy to most people means either ISA/VLB or the PCI legacy
> compatibility mode so that would be confusing.

That's what this code is for (minus the MMIO accessors perhaps).

> 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.

MBR, Sergei