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From: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ide-iops for big endian archs
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:49:08 +0200
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>   IDE uses ide_insw instead of plain insw specifically to
>   resolve this kind of issue, and you are trying to defeat
>   the mechanism designed to help you. I smell a fish here.
>
>They're trying to abstract out as much as possible in 2.5.x, maybe a
>bit too much :-)

Well, no, we are changing the abstraction but didn't quite yet
remove rests of the old one ;)

Ben.