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authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>2007-09-20 15:03:07 +0100
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-09-20 15:58:26 -0400
commite1cc9de8361f267101402a1181cff4d3d3225a6d (patch)
treeddb57a3bd49a33cb869a399daa6ba094f20fa26c /drivers/ata
parent0e3dbc01d53940fe10e5a5cfec15ede3e929c918 (diff)
libata-sff: Fix documentation
Code moved to ioread/iowrite but the comment didn't Also note a posting issue Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-sff.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
index 1cce2198baa..8023167bbbe 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ void ata_bmdma_start (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
dmactl = ioread8(ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr + ATA_DMA_CMD);
iowrite8(dmactl | ATA_DMA_START, ap->ioaddr.bmdma_addr + ATA_DMA_CMD);
- /* Strictly, one may wish to issue a readb() here, to
+ /* Strictly, one may wish to issue an ioread8() here, to
* flush the mmio write. However, control also passes
* to the hardware at this point, and it will interrupt
* us when we are to resume control. So, in effect,
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ void ata_bmdma_start (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
* is expected, so I think it is best to not add a readb()
* without first all the MMIO ATA cards/mobos.
* Or maybe I'm just being paranoid.
+ *
+ * FIXME: The posting of this write means I/O starts are
+ * unneccessarily delayed for MMIO
*/
}