Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:50:13 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ide: Fix ata_id_has_dword_io to return DWORD I/O support properly |
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> Sure, we can always improve things further later. However Mario's patch > is _definitely_ an improvement over the _current_ code. Don't you agree?
No actually I don't. The current head dev code checks ATA > 7 as the indicator that this bit is used for treacherous computing. That means the behaviour for all the older drives is clearly back compatible with old Linux behaviour.
Doing it that way around means we don't have any worries about changing existing behaviours.
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