Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:58:49 -0700


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:46:15AM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >something scary. I beleive the sanest solution that won't please
> >affected people is to _not_ support DMA on these broken HW ;)
>
> No: the sane sollution would be to not support swapping disks between
> those systems and other systems.

Martin,

Go ahead and remove the byte swaping code for now, since it is a development
kernel after all...

*But*, make sure you put that on your to do list to add it back in a "sane"
way.
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