Re: [PATCH] ide: Fix ata_id_has_dword_io to return DWORD I/O supportproperly

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

Alan Cox wrote:

> > OTOH the current patch is safe even for 2.6.28 (based on years of experience
> > with the check that we had in IDE subsystem) and will fix some libata drivers
> > (pata_legacy, pata_qdi and pata_winbond) to use dword IO on >= ATA-2 devices.
> >
> > [ In reality this a regression fix for IDE -> libata conversion as it is a
> >   huge performance improvement for the above mentioned DMA-less drivers. ]
> >     
>
> The 32bit PIO support is already queued up and went to Jeff a while ago
> so thats all in hand - its btw a big win on some suprising chipset cases
> including Intel ICH chipsets.
>   

  This is indeed strange...

> > Jeff, I would like to merge it through IDE tree since the other patch depends
> > on it but if you want to go ahead and push it to Linus earlier feel free to
> > do it (or I can include it into the next IDE fixes pull request if you like).
> >     
>
> Its still broken. You cannot use the version check for versions below 3.
>   

  The word is reserved since ATA-2, and ata_id_major_version() should 
be returning 0 for pre-ATA-3 drives, so I don't know what else can be 
done here...

> I remain unconvinced we should be looking at it anywhere except specific
> pure ISA cycle pass through hardware and thus it belongs as a helper for
>   

  I'm still not getting how drive can support or not support "DWORD 
I/O" -- you certainly can't have 32-bit I/O cycle on ISA (only on EISA) 
and you certainly cannot translate 32-bit cycle to the ATA bus. I 
remember I had some hypotheses before but they turned out to be 
inconsistent.

> those drivers not as ata_has_mumble stuff as its not ATA - eide_* maybe.
>   

  Indeed, already ATA-1 says that the word 48 is "includedfor backwards 
compatible VU use".

> Alan
>   

MBR, Sergei


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