On Monday 10 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> > There is absolutely no hardware setup done by IDE subsystem or dtc2278
> > host driver when ->io_32bit setting is changed and since ->io_32bit setting
> 
> So ?
> 
> The original author went to great trouble to specifically enforce the
> behaviour in question and probably did so for a reason. Would it not be

Probably so but please keep in mind the state of IDE subsystem back
then...

> far safer to fix it by keeping that enforcement and fixing where it is
> lost than removing it - especially if you cannot test the hardware ?

What about just enforcing ->io_32bit for both drives in ->init_hwif method
and disallowing any futher changes with 'hwif->no_io_32bit = 1'?

Thanks,
Bart
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