On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:52:28 +0100
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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'?

Sounds fine to me. 

Alan
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