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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:25:02 +0200
From: Kristian Peters <kristian.peters@korseby.net>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] DMA for CD-ROM audio
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Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
> If the code is truly safe on older systems, what I think makes more
> sense is merging it without a configure option and having DMA-capable
> systems use DMA CD-audio and older systems fall back to PIO.

Yes. But it seems that no maintainer is interested. So I thought it could be nice if the user can trigger dma for cd audio.

> This would clean up all those nasty ifdefs and perhaps we could
> generalize the two codepaths together, further reducing size.
> 
> I like the patch... up for my idea for 2.5?

Ok. I port it to 2.5 but that could take some time. The ide layer has changed a bit.

> I wonder what akpm thinks..

He's ok with it. It was he who suggested sending it to the list.

*Kristian
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