On 03/14/2016 05:27 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
This change brings a number of improvements: fewer macros, better test coverage, simpler code and sane Kconfig options. The downside is a small chance of incompatibility (which seems unavoidable). CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 exists to enable or inhibit pseudo DMA transfers when the driver is used with 53C400-compatible cards. Thanks to Ondrej Zary's patches, PDMA now works which means it can be enabled unconditionally. Due to bad design, CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 ties together unrelated functionality as it sets both PSEUDO_DMA and BIOSPARAM macros. This patch effectively enables PSEUDO_DMA and disables BIOSPARAM. The defconfigs and the Kconfig default leave CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 undefined. Red Hat 9 and CentOS 2.1 were the same. This leaves both PSEUDO_DMA and BIOSPARAM disabled. The effect of this patch should be better performance from enabling PSEUDO_DMA. On the other hand, Debian 4 and SLES 10 had CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 enabled, so both PSEUDO_DMA and BIOSPARAM were enabled. This patch might affect configurations like this by disabling BIOSPARAM. My best guess is that this could be a problem only in the vanishingly rare case that 1) the CHS values stored in the boot device partition table are wrong and 2) a 5380 card is in use (because PDMA on 53C400 used to be broken). Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
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