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DateTue, 16 Apr 2002 09:33:00 +0200
FromMartin Dalecki <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36
Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:05:21AM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
>>Tue Apr 16 01:02:47 CEST 2002 ide-clean-36
>>
>>- Consolidate ide_choose_drive() and choose_drive() in to one function.
>>
>>- Remove sector data byteswpapping support. Byte-swapping the data is supported
>>   on the file-system level where applicable.  Byte-swapped interfaces are
>>   supported on a lower level anyway. And finally it was used inconsistently.
> 
> 
> Are you sure about this? I think file systems support LE/BE, but not
> byteswapping because of IDE being LE on a BE system.

I'm sure about this. For the following reasons:

1. The removed functionality affected only sector data transfers.

2. The following code for interfaces with byte swapped BUS setups
    still remains intact:

#if defined(CONFIG_ATARI) || defined(CONFIG_Q40)
	if (MACH_IS_ATARI || MACH_IS_Q40) {
		/* Atari has a byte-swapped IDE interface */
		insw_swapw(IDE_DATA_REG, buffer, bytecount / 2);
		return;
	}
#endif
And indeed as you show - there was confusion about this issue
throughout the whole driver, since the taskfile_in(out)
functions where basically just the byteswapped variants and
where not uses consistently.

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