Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:17:41 -0500 | From | Scott Wood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver |
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Sergei Shtylyov wrote: >> It doesn't buy us anything in here, but it's conceivable that someone >> may want to write a driver that uses a shift in the I/O accessor >> rather than an array of port offsets, > > > It wouldn't be IDE driver then, and neither it would be libata which > also does this another way this (despite pata_platform uses shifts too > -- not in the accessors, so no speed loss).
The device tree is not just for Linux.
>> equivalent of the cntlzw innstruction, and shift makes it clear that >> the stride must be power-of-two). Plus, using shift is consistent >> with what we do on ns16550. > > > Why the heck should we care about the UART code taling about IDE?!
Consistency?
> So, let me consider your argument purely speculative and invalid. ;-)
Consider it whatever you want. :-)
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