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2008-01-26ide: remove broken disk byte-swapping supportBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-4/+0
Remove broken disk byte-swapping support: - it can cause a data corruption on SMP (or if using PREEMPT on UP) - all data coming from disk are byte-swapped by taskfile_*_data() which results in incorrect identify data being reported by /proc/ide/ and IOCTLs - "hdx=bswap/byteswap" kernel parameter has been broken on m68k host drivers (including Atari/Q40 ones) since 2.5.x days (because of 'hwif' zero-ing) - byte-swapping is limited to PIO transfers (for working with TiVo disks on x86 machines using user-space solutions or dm-byteswap should result in much better performance because DMA can be used) For previous discussions please see: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.0/0768.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/28/111 [ I have dm-byteswap device mapper target if somebody is interested (patch is for 2.6.4 though but I'll dust it off if needed). ] Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-01-26ide: make remaining built-in only IDE host drivers modular (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-4/+5
* Make remaining built-in only IDE host drivers modular, add ide-scan-pci.c file for probing PCI host drivers registered with IDE core (special case for built-in IDE and CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y) and then take care of the ordering in which all IDE host drivers are probed when IDE is built-in during link time. * Move probing of gayle, falconide, macide, q40ide and buddha (m68k arch specific) host drivers, before PCI ones (no PCI on m68k), ide-cris (cris arch specific), cmd640 (x86 arch specific) and pmac (ppc arch specific). * Move probing of ide-cris (cris arch specific) host driver before cmd640 (x86 arch specific). * Move probing of mpc8xx (ppc specific) host driver before ide-pnp (depends on ISA and none of ppc platform that use mpc8xx supports ISA) and ide-h8300 (h8300 arch specific). * Add "probe_vlb" kernel parameter to cmd640 host driver and update Documentation/ide.txt accordingly. * Make IDE_ARM config option visible so it can also be disabled if needed. * Remove bogus comment from ide.c while at it. v2: * Fix two issues spotted by Sergei: - replace ENOMEM error value by ENOENT in ide-h8300 host driver - fix MODULE_PARM_DESC() in cmd640 host driver Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-10-16ide: add "hdx=nodma" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-2/+2
* Add "hdx=nodma" option allowing user to disallow DMA for a given device. * Obsolete "ide=nodma" option. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-10-16ide: remove "idex=dma" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-2/+0
It has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004, is valid only when used together with "ide=nodma" kernel parameter (which makes no sense) and only for aec62xx, cmd64x, cs5220, generic, hpt366, sl82c105, tc86c001 and triflex host drivers. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-03-03ide: make legacy IDE VLB modules check for the "probe" kernel params (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-5/+9
Legacy IDE VLB host drivers didn't check for "probe" options when compiled as modules, which was obviously wrong as we don't want module to poke at random I/O ports by simply loading it. Fix it by adding "probe" module param to legacy IDE VLB host drivers. v2: * don't obsolete old "ide0=dtc2278/ht6560b/qd65xx/ali14xx/umc8672" IDE driver options yet (per Alan Cox's request) and enhance documentation Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-03-03ide: remove some obsoleted kernel params (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-12/+3
Remove * "hdx=serialize" * "idex=noautotune" * "idex=autotune" kernel params, they have been obsoleted for ages. "idex=serialize", "hdx=noautotune" and "hdx=autotune" are still available so there is no funcionality loss caused by this patch. v2: * fix CONFIG_BLK_DEV_4DRIVES=y build broken by version 1 of the patch [ /me wearing brown paper bag ] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'Matt LaPlante1-1/+1
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letters 'U-Z'. Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again +too! Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...? Time will +tell. :) Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'Matt LaPlante1-1/+1
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+394
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!