Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:07:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:07:20 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:33038 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:07:20 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:24:55 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), david.lang@digitalinsight.com (David Lang), vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <3CBD25E2.2050404@evision-ventures.com> from "Martin Dalecki" at Apr 17, 2002 09:36:02 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > A small number of other setups people wired the IDE the quick and easy > > way and their native format is indeed ass backwards - some M68K disks and > > the Tivo are examples of that. Interworking requires byteswapping and the > > ability to handle byteswapped partition tables. > > I said it already multiple times Alan - please note that the byte-swapping code > for *physically* crosswired systems is *still there*. OK? Thats not relevant to the discussion. I don't see why you brought it up. The loopback stuff is about handling backward disks for interchange between systems or dealing with historical weirdnesses much more than physical layer - 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/