RE: insw/outsw in ide.h

On 01-Mar-00 Paul Mackerras wrote:

Is there any PPC platform that needs to use a byte-swapping insw/outsw in
the IDE driver?  (I can't see why any platform would, but you never
know...)

I have changed the insw/outsw/insl/outsl in include/asm-ppc/io.h to be the
non-swapping form (in my tree at least, I'll push it to bk soon).  I would
like to take out the special definitions of insw/outsw in
include/asm-ppc/ide.h and just let the ide driver use the standard
(non-swapping) form.  Will this cause a problem for any PPC platforms?

I can't tell for sure, but won't this break existing [already installed]
systems?  I agree that the data path really doesn't matter, but once it's
on the media it probably does.

Have you tested this change on a system with an IDE drive that has a
live file system in place?

.. just my 2c

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