Re: [PATCH] ide: Allow IDE interface to specify its not capable of 32-bit operations

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 11:58:38 EST


On 2/14/06, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-02-14 at 10:22 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > In some embedded systems the IDE hardware interface may only support 16-bit
> > or smaller accesses. Allow the interface to specify if this is the case
> > and don't allow the drive or user to override the setting.
>
> The "no_io_32bit" is just a dead leftover. It has no effect at all
> anyway so this patch is a bit pointless.
>
> Do a grep over the code for no_io_32bit and you will see its essentially
> a private variable in the CMD640 driver.

Please grep ide.c for "no_io_32bit". Thank you.

Bartlomiej
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