Re: Small error?? in IDE dma processing?

Hi Paul !

On the linux kernel mailing list, I've catched the following message :

On Tue, Dec 15, 1998,  [off-list ref] wrote:

  Can you confirm an error in the following code for dma_intr(): (2.0)
    
    
            dma_stat = inb(dma_base+2);             /* get DMA status */
            outb(inb(dma_base)&~1, dma_base);     /* stop DMA operation */
            stat = GET_STAT();                      /* get drive status */
    
    
    Should this not be:
    
    
            outb(inb(dma_base)&~1, dma_base);      /* stop DMA operation*/
            dma_stat = inb(dma_base+2);             /* get DMA status */
            stat = GET_STAT();                      /* get drive status */
    
     
    Similar for (2.1) the DMA status is retrieve before you stop the DMA 
    operation.

The error was then confirmed I think by Andre M. Hedrick.

Then, I looked at our ide-dma.c and ide-pmac.c, and it looks like we have
the same kind of issue:

ide-pmac.c, line 301:

    case ide_dma_end:
        drive->waiting_for_dma = 0;
        dstat = in_le32(&dma->status);
        out_le32(&dma->control, ((RUN|WAKE|DEAD) << 16));
        /* verify good DMA status */
        return (dstat & ((RUN|DEAD|ACTIVE)) != RUN;

shouldn't we do the same split and reverse the status read and the
control write ?

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