Re: [PATCH 5/5] falconide/q40ide: add ->atapi_*put_bytes and->ata_*put_data methods

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 04:14:28 EST


> Sorry for the mess in core code - ist there any other way for only driveid
> and packet data getting swapped? And can we actually use the device mapper
> to byte-swap the root partition?

Device Mapper can certainly support that if needed - I don't think it has
a swab target currently but byteswapped is just a very bad crypto
algorithm so you can use dm crypt target as a reference. Might not be a
bad idea just to make the media shareable.

The only other way I can see to do it would be to split the ATA transfer
functions into two sets one for media data and one for other stuff - but
then how do you handle iso9660 cd ?

Alan
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