On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > 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 <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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