Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:41:31 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Any guides for adding new IDE chipset drivers? |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:27:06 +0000 Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:
| On Monday 16 of Febuary 2004 09:40:21 PST, Bart wrote: | >On Monday 16 of February 2004 18:04, Alex Bennee wrote: | > | >> Is there a driver that can be held of as an example of good taste and | >> the "right" way to implement a chipset driver? | > | >Yep. Please take a look at drivers/ide/arm/icside.c. | >It is well written, quite simple and has DMA support. | | Thanks. I'll base my driver on this one as it does seem quite easy | to follow. However I'm wondering what the point of the begin/end functions | are. The dma_read/write functions just seem to call dma_count which starts the | dma requests going. | | Am I missing something here? Is all that required from the higher level a single | call to dma_read/write or should I be expecting a series of calls to setup a transfer? | | | >If you have any questions/issues feel free to ask | >on linux-ide@vger.kernel.org mailing list. | | Hmmm, vger seems to be ignoring my subscribe requests. | | Is the list archived anywhere? None are listed on VGER.
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