Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:49:08 +0200


> IDE uses ide_insw instead of plain insw specifically to
> resolve this kind of issue, and you are trying to defeat
> the mechanism designed to help you. I smell a fish here.
>
>They're trying to abstract out as much as possible in 2.5.x, maybe a
>bit too much :-)

Well, no, we are changing the abstraction but didn't quite yet
remove rests of the old one ;)

Ben.

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