Re: [RFC][Patch] DMA for CD-ROM audio

[Kristian Peters]

Robert Love <[e-mail]> 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