On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:00:24PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> Hello Vojtech.
> 
> I have noticed that the ide-timings.h and ide_modules.h are running
> much in aprallel in the purpose they serve. Are the any
> chances you could dare to care about propagating the
> fairly nice ide-timings.h stuff in favour of
> ide_modules.h more.
> 
> BTW.> I think some stuff from ide-timings.h just belongs
> as generic functions intro ide.c, and right now there is
> nobody who you need to work from behind ;-).
> 
> So please feel free to do the changes you apparently desired
> to do a long time ago...

Hmm, ok. Try this. It shouldn't change any functionality, yet makes a
small step towards cleaning the chipset specific drivers.

Reading through them as I was doing the changes, I found out that most
of them compute the timings incorrectly. Because of that I also removed
the pio blacklist (which is going to come back in a more powerful form,
merged together with the DMA blacklist), because that one is based on
ancient experiments with the broken CMD640 chip and a driver which
doesn't get the timings correct either. The blacklist is plain invalid.

I plan to focus on the most important drivers first, to fix and clean
them, working with the authors where possible.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs