On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:18:18 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 06:12:42 pm Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:02:39 +0100
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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
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