On Monday, October 31, 2016 7:24:46 PM CET Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Monday, October 31, 2016 07:14:13 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Monday, October 31, 2016 03:46:22 PM Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 07:01:12PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > I'd be fine with just getting a pull request with all the patches that > > > > > had no negative feedback and that were not already applied (if any). > > > > > > > > Here it is (sorry for taking so long). > > > > > > I've just been digging in the dmesg logs from when I was using the > > > Assabet+Neponset as my firewall, and it was having to use the IDE > > > ide-cs driver rather than the pata pcmcia driver. > > > > > > I don't recall whether the pata pcmcia driver was a problem or not, > > > as the PCMCIA interface can't cope with _any_ 32-bit accesses. I > > > think PATA tries to use the "highest" possible access size by > > > default... > > > > It doesn't actually - it defaults to 16-bits for PIO data access and > > you must explicitly enable 32-bits using ATA_PFLAG_PIO32 port flag > > (pata_pcmcia doesn't set it so it should be okay). Also taskfile > > registers are accessed using 8-bits access by default transport > > functions (which are used by pata_pcmcia). > > Please also note that: > > - assebet_defconfig currently doesn't even enable ide-cs > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS) in the mainline kernel > > - neponset_defconfig doesn't even enable IDE (CONFIG_IDE) > in the mainline kernel > > so there is no risk of breaking anything.. I noticed this older pull request in my todo folder, my interpretation is that the concern was resolved and we simply missed it. I've pulled it into next/defconfig for v4.10 now, with the above in the merge commit text for reference. Thanks, Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
