Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030584AbXAZCBy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:01:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030586AbXAZCBy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:01:54 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:41279 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030584AbXAZCBx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:01:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:01:43 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: David Woodhouse , Alan , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers In-Reply-To: <45B95D3A.10108@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <20070125150905.652f9ce2@localhost.localdomain> <1169741658.3593.98.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070125172739.0c990a9a@localhost.localdomain> <1169770985.3593.146.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <45B95D3A.10108@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1805 Lines: 43 On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On sparc64, for example, after I pointed this out to DaveM, he was able to > implement the new iomap interface without the 'if (pio-mem-area)' branch > present on x86. However, in all honesty, we have triggered bugs in that area too, simply because some driver code "knew" that PIO addresses could fit in 16 bits, and used u16 or "unsigned short" to remember the PIO address. Both ARM and Sparc was bitten by this, although usually the issue is trivial to fix once found. Also, many ISA-only drivers actually have hardcoded PIO numbers (eg "0x1f0"). But yes, I would generally suggest that architectures where the PIO range is really just another magic MMIO range (which is most of the non-x86 world, as you point out) might as well at least aim for doing the remapping early (ie with "pci_resource_start()") Making that easy was one of my goals for the "new" IO accessor functions, in fact. Not that many people actually use them. So *if* you use the new "iomap" interfaces, and the new "pci_iomap()" things, that should actually not just allow drivers (like the ATA layer) to share much more code between the PIO and MMIO cases, but it hopefully actually makes it easier for strange architectures to do it all. So traditionally, we've had PIO be "limited integer addresses, and some drivers know magic numbers", but hopefully new drivers could at least try to use some of the infrastructure where we try to help people not have to deal with it so much as a special case any more. Linus - 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/