Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:07:33 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
This is purely for comment and testing, not for merging (yet?).
A common recipe in several vendor drivers (either GPL'd, or I have NDA'd
access to use them as a documentation-like reference) for ATAPI was
slightly different from ours. This recipe can be found in
atapi_tf_xfer_size(), and it's slightly different from Alan's.
Looks mostly good. Might cause breakage on one or two controllers by
setting lbam/lbah to 0 for DMA but we can test that and find out.
DMA always zeroed lbam/lbah thanks to memset(), my patch merely made it
explicit.
Note however - the scheme in use now has been tested for over ten years
in drivers/ide. The scheme below has not...
See my other email just posted, differences and errata abound :)
Jeff
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