Re: [PATCH 2/6] ide: move SFF I/O code to ide-io-sff.c

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 13:46:29 EST


Alan Cox wrote:

BTW if you moved to ioreadX you could get rid of almost all the readb/inb
special casing.

And burden the driver code with function calls ISO in/out instructions, at least on x86. It's somewhat arguable move.

And exactly how do you think the IDE accessors in the file get called ?

Tried looking at how in*()/out*() are defined on x86?

It's already making function calls, without the benefit of inlining and

I'm afraid you're wrong here.

MBR, Sergei
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