Re: IDE janitoring comments

[Andre Hedrick]

Yep, just be careful of how to decouple the hwif->iops from procfs for pci
and the general lameness of x86 centric issues.

On 24 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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 ?
> 

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group