Re: [PATCH][RFC] ServerWorks autodma behavior

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:21:25 +0100


Ken Brownfield wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:12:46PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> | Ken Brownfield wrote:
> [...]
> | > In any case, I've appended the patch I'm using to be able to turn off
> | > auto-DMA at config-time rather than run-time for ServerWorks. One
> | > alternative is to shed this code altogether, since ide-pci.c seems to
> | > set a rational default.
> |
> | I think (not 100% becouse not re-checked against the code),
> | you could just have removed the lines
> |
> | if (!noautodma)
> | hwif->autodma = 1;
> |
> | and all should be well ;-).
>
> Yes, and that's what I found as well. That was my first patch until I
> noticed the AUTO check in the VIA driver around this same code.
I rather think that VIA could be cured the same way.

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