Re: IDE janitoring comments

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 15:14:11 EST


On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 16:15, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> - Do we really want to keep all those _P versions around ?
> A quick grep showed _only_ by the non-portable x86 specific
> recovery timer stuff that taps ISA timers (well, I think ports
> 0x40 and 0x43 and an ISA timer). I would strongly suggest to

I'd like to keep them around for the moment. They should be using
udelay() but thats a general issue with _p inb/outb etc.

> After much thinking about the above, I came to the conslusion
> we probably want to just kill all the IN_BYTE, OUT_BYTE, etc.

Agreed entirely

> Also, getting rid of the _P version would make things a lot
> easier as well here too.

What currently uses the _P versions ?

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