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| author | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | 2008-01-26 20:13:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz | 2008-01-26 20:13:09 +0100 |
| commit | 9e47be0c97f7357b80e91dc0632e9cce2eb025e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7047b2b3c9ac094b801d376e4bbb95292b1962ac /drivers/ide/ide.c | |
| parent | ide: add ide_busy_sleep() helper (diff) | |
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ide: remove broken disk byte-swapping support
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide/ide.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/ide.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c index 5f3e53ec5838..52115ef1f01a 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s) if (s[0] == 'h' && s[1] == 'd' && s[2] >= 'a' && s[2] <= max_drive) { const char *hd_words[] = { "none", "noprobe", "nowerr", "cdrom", "nodma", - "autotune", "noautotune", "minus8", "swapdata", "bswap", + "autotune", "noautotune", "-8", "-9", "-10", "noflush", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL }; unit = s[2] - 'a'; hw = unit / MAX_DRIVES; @@ -1339,10 +1339,6 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s) case -7: /* "noautotune" */ drive->autotune = IDE_TUNE_NOAUTO; goto obsolete_option; - case -9: /* "swapdata" */ - case -10: /* "bswap" */ - drive->bswap = 1; - goto done; case -11: /* noflush */ drive->noflush = 1; goto done; |