Hello Tejun,
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:01:58 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Bartlomiej. Happy new lunar year.
>
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > I would prefer to not teach do_rw_taskfile() about ->tf_{in,out}_flags
> > (and convert all users to use helpers) - it is much simpler this way,
> >
> > ->flags field in ide_task_t is needed anyway (32-bit I/O flag).
> >
>
> New lunar year day is one of the biggest holidays here, so I haven't
> got time to work for a few days. As it's over now, I began to work on
> ide drivers again. I applied your task->flags patch and am moving my
> patches over it.
>
> One problem is that, with ATA_TFLAG_LBA48, whether to use HOB
> registers or not cannot be determined separately for writing and
> reading. So, when initializing flush tasks, if WIN_FLUSH_CACHE_EXT is
> used, we need to turn on ATA_TFLAG_LBA48 to read error location
> properly, and we end up unnecessarily writing HOB registers.
Yep, good catch.
> I think we can...
>
> 1. Just leave it as it is. It's not that big a deal.
> 2. Use another flag(s) to control LBA48 reading/writing separately.
> 3. do my proposal. :-)
>
> I'm currently sticking to #1. Please let me know what you think.
agreed, #1 is a good choice, it is not that important to make things
more complicated
Thanks,
Bartlomiej
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