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Message-ID: <498B7D09.6040100@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:58:01 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	apw@...onical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] ide: include <asm/ide.h> only when needed

Hello.

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

>>>>> +#include <asm/ide.h>
>>>>>           
>>>> Did you try checkpatch.pl?
>>>>         
>>> Sure.
>>>
>>> This driver uses stuff from <asm-mips/ide.h>.
>>>
>>> [ I guess I could put '-mips' there to silence warnings on tx493{8,9}.c,
>>>   however I don't know of the way to get rid of ide-io-std.c's one... ]
>>>       
>> BTW, tx4939ide_{in,out}put_data_swap and
>> tx4939ide_{in,out}put_data_swap do exactly same thing.
>>
>> If byte-swapped version of ide_{in,out}put_data() were available by
>> ide core, they can be used instead.  The byte-swapped version of
>> default_tp_ops would much helps such queer big-endian platforms.  Is
>> it worth to bloat ide core? ;-)
>>     
>
> Seems to be a good idea and it may also help some other host drivers
> (ide-h8300.c?).
>   

   I'm not sure we need to carry the extra little used code just to help 
some exotic driver.

> Thanks,
> Bart

MBR, Sergei


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