Re: [PATCH 03/86] pata_artop: add 32-bit PIO support

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:18:18 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 06:12:42 pm Alan Cox wrote:

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On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:02:39 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] pata_artop: add 32-bit PIO support

There shouldn't be any problems with it as IDE aec62xx host driver
has been allowing 32-bit PIO operations for years.

Allowing or defaulting too ?

For aec62xx: allowing, for some other drivers: defaulting ('using'
in the patch description instead of 'allowing').  However some
popular distributions have been defaulting to always enabling it
if was supported by the driver.

I wonder what their coverage of old devices is like though and what they
enabled. No problem with those that defaulted, would be nice to get the
rest tested more systematically