Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265203AbUFMQEg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:04:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265201AbUFMQEd (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:04:33 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:45250 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265198AbUFMQEb (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:04:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE update for 2.6.7-rc3 [4/12] From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Paul Mundt Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel list , Russell King In-Reply-To: <20040611190639.GC12953@linux-sh.org> References: <200406111755.02325.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040611181106.GB12953@linux-sh.org> <200406112047.58373.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040611190639.GC12953@linux-sh.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087142338.8210.178.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:58:59 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 513 Lines: 15 > It's used for the DMA channel number, or NO_DMA for falling back on PIO. It is a chipset/platform specific information and has no meaning outside of the chipset driver, thus it should be in the chipset local state data structures and not in the common one. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/