Re: + fix-ide-dma-resource-managment.patch added to -mm tree

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On 3/28/06, Sergei Shtylylov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Sergei Shtylylov wrote:
>
> >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> [skipped]
>
> >>>> - release the channel's secondary DMA I/O ports for real
>
> >>> NAK, looking and the code - secondary DMA base is only used
> >>> by siimage.c and sgiioc4.c (both use ->mmio == 2, for siimage
> >>> ->dma_base2
> >>> is unused, for sgiioc4 it is used for some weird DMA transfer ending
> >>> stuff)
>
>     Hm, concerning the other field of ide_hwif_t, dma_master: I currently see
> no users to it but pdc202xx_old.c. The way it's computed makes it dependent on
> what channels are enabled (though all channels are forced present in that
> driver by the most recent patch) which makes it invalid if the primary channel
> happens to be disabled. I'd like to replace it with extra_base fields which
> would point to the extra DMA ports regardless of the channels present/enabled,
> is this OK?

Isn't it better to just use pci_resource_start(dev, 4) in pdc202xx_old.c?

Bartlomiej
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