Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:31:00 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: libata. BMDMA handling updates |
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Alan Cox wrote: > This is the minimal patch set to enable the current code to be used with > a controller following SFF (ie any PATA and early SATA controllers) > safely without crashes if there is no BMDMA area or if BMDMA is not > assigned by the BIOS for some reason. > > Simplex status is recorded but not acted upon in this change, this isn't > a problem with the current drivers as none of them are for simplex > hardware. A following diff will deal with that. > > The flags in the probe structure remain ->host_set_flags although Jeff > asked me to rename them, simply because the rename would break the usual > Linux rules that old code should break when there are changes. not > compile and run and then blow up/eat your computer/etc. Renaming this > later is a trivial exercise once a better name is chosen.
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