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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:19:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: ide cleanup
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

> -#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC4030
>  	if (IS_PDC4030_DRIVE) {
>  		extern ide_startstop_t promise_rw_disk(ide_drive_t *, struct request *, unsigned long);
>  		return promise_rw_disk(drive, rq, block);
>  	}
> -#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC4030 */

Am I reading this totally wrong, or do you really think it's a good idea
to test for a drive even if the user didn't configure such hardware?

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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