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Message-ID: <20091125175941.56a6f52d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:59:41 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/86] pata_artop: add 32-bit PIO support

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:18:18 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com> 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@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
> > > 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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