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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:27:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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Subject: Re: [2.4 patch] document that cmd64x.c supports the CMD649 and
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> CMD680 will be extracted out to siiimage.c as it is a differnet driver
> with dual transport modes.  I just need to resort patches first.

I suspect this change won't be included in 2.4.19. Since 2.4.19 is a
stable kernel and the change is pretty easy revertible I hope you don't
disagree on including my small patch.


The typical scenario I've already seen if such a patch was missing is:
- "My disk is very slow/slower than under Windows."
- it turns out the disk doesn't use DMA
- the self-compiled kernel doesn't include the IDE driver for the chipset
  in the computer because:
  - "HPT366 chipset support" doesn't sound like the right option for a
    HPT370
  - CMD649 isn't listed as a supported chipset


Compared to the work needed to write the code to support a chipset these
small documentation updates to Config.in and
$(TOPDIR)/Documentation/Configure.help are really small - but they are
important for users to benefit from the driver.


> Cheers,

cu
Adrian

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