Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422646AbWBNQrl (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:47:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422645AbWBNQrk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:47:40 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:1155 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422643AbWBNQrj (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:47:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operations From: Alan Cox To: Kumar Gala Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:50:28 +0000 Message-Id: <1139935828.10394.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 18 On Maw, 2006-02-14 at 10:22 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit > or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case > and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting. The "no_io_32bit" is just a dead leftover. It has no effect at all anyway so this patch is a bit pointless. Do a grep over the code for no_io_32bit and you will see its essentially a private variable in the CMD640 driver. - 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/