Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:45:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Here are patches for 2.4.19-pre3 & 2.5.28 which free them from using
>>cli/sti in qd65xx stuff.
>
>
> Cool.
>
>
>>(also using ide's OUT_BYTE / IN_BYTE btw)
>
>
> In my opinion this doesn't make sense. The qd65xx is a VESA Local Bus
> only hardware and is very very unlikely to be used on anything else than
> an x86, where these defines are needed. Also, the ports written to are
> not a part of the IDE controller region, so the IN_BYTE/OUT_BYTE macros
> might not work there if it was ever used on a non-x86 machine. Also, it
> makes the code less readable.
Amen. BTW> I think proper fix is to simple *remove* the cli() cti()
commands. They don't make much sense in first place.
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