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

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Mar 31 2008 - 02:04:29 EST


On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > * Add ->atapi_{in,out}put_bytes and ->ata_{in,out}put_data methods to
> > > > falconide and q40ide host drivers (->ata_* methods are implemented on
> > > > top of ->atapi_* methods so they also do byte-swapping now).
> > > >
> > > > * Cleanup atapi_{in,out}put_bytes().
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > One remaining issue (for which the fix has never been submitted upstream so
> > > far) with Atari and Q40 is that due to the byteswapped interface, the driveid
> > > is also byteswapped, so it has to be unswapped again in ide_fix_driveid().
> >
> > My patch causes unswapping for _all_ data coming from the device so I wonder
> > whether the ide_fix_driveid() fix is still needed?
>
> I'll give it a try on Aranym...

Oops, just applying this series of 5 patches is not sufficient, I get
lots of rejects...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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