Re: [PATCH] 2.5.24 IDE 97

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:44:09 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:18:09PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > I think the best solution (for now) probably would be to supply the mode
> > map to the core IDE driver so that it can choose which modes (and
> > whether DMA) are available.
>
> I'm not really following your proposal, so I'll only say that as long as
> the chipset driver can tell the core what its capabilities are _after_
> running some chipset specific code, I'll be happy.

My tuning scheme satisfies your both demands, by ch->dma_base,
ch->autodma and ch->modes_map host informs generic code about its
capabilities.

>
> --
> Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
>

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