Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 10 authors, 2009-05-26

Re: [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2009-05-13 08:55:28
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51, Alan Cox [off-list ref] wrote:
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If it doesn't interfere with plain PIO mode, fine.
I agree. There definitely needs to still be support for IDE ports that
don't have DMA capability.
There is - it's just if the platform doesn't implement the dma_* APIs you
get a problem.
Note that there are other things missing on m68k and m32r, that's why
Al added the

| depends on !(M32R || M68K) || BROKEN

commit 9317fd4c60962d3a9423b5f9bb5d1b10cf8a0699
Author: Al Viro [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Sep 24 23:40:00 2006 +0100

    [PATCH] libata won't build on m68k and m32r

    no ioread*(), for one thing

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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