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DateSun, 14 May 2006 05:05:48 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] ide_dma_speed() fixes
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
>>     ide_dma_speed() fails to actually honor the IDE drivers' mode support 
>  masks) because of the bogus checks -- thus, selecting the DMA transfer mode 
>  that the driver explicitly refuses to support is possible. Additionally, there 
>  is no check for validity of the UltraDMA mode data in the drive ID, and the 
>  function is misdocumented.

drivers/ide/ide-lib.c: In function `ide_dma_speed':
drivers/ide/ide-lib.c:86: warning: `ultra_mask' might be used uninitialized in this function

Looks like a real bug to me - it depends up on the values of `mode' and
id->field_value.

Anyway, I'll drop it, please review and fix.  I assume that warning was
occurring for you as well - please spend more time over these things. 
Especially when working on IDE, where bugs are slow to show themselves and
have particularly bad consequences.
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