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    • Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar
      ide: remove broken disk byte-swapping support · 9e47be0c
      Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
      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: default avatarSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
      9e47be0c
    • Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar
      ide: make remaining built-in only IDE host drivers modular (take 2) · ade2daf9
      Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
      
      * Make remaining built-in only IDE host drivers modular, add ide-scan-pci.c
        file for probing PCI host drivers registered with IDE core (special case
        for built-in IDE and CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y) and then take care of
        the ordering in which all IDE host drivers are probed when IDE is built-in
        during link time.
      
      * Move probing of gayle, falconide, macide, q40ide and buddha (m68k arch
        specific) host drivers, before PCI ones (no PCI on m68k), ide-cris (cris
        arch specific), cmd640 (x86 arch specific) and pmac (ppc arch specific).
      
      * Move probing of ide-cris (cris arch specific) host driver before cmd640
        (x86 arch specific).
      
      * Move probing of mpc8xx (ppc specific) host driver before ide-pnp (depends
        on ISA and none of ppc platform that use mpc8xx supports ISA) and ide-h8300
        (h8300 arch specific).
      
      * Add "probe_vlb" kernel parameter to cmd640 host driver and update
        Documentation/ide.txt accordingly.
      
      * Make IDE_ARM config option visible so it can also be disabled if needed.
      
      * Remove bogus comment from ide.c while at it.
      
      v2:
      * Fix two issues spotted by Sergei:
        - replace ENOMEM error value by ENOENT in ide-h8300 host driver
        - fix MODULE_PARM_DESC() in cmd640 host driver
      
      Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
      ade2daf9
    • Nicolas Pitre's avatar
      ARM kprobes: let's enable it · 5de865b4
      Nicolas Pitre authored
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
      5de865b4
    • Russell King's avatar
      [ARM] pxa: add cpufreq support · 9e2697ff
      Russell King authored
      
      There have been patches hanging around for ages to add support for
      cpufreq to PXA255 processors.  It's about time we applied one.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      9e2697ff
    • Heiko Carstens's avatar
      [S390] Get rid of additional_cpus kernel parameter. · 48483b32
      Heiko Carstens authored
      
      It caused only a lot of confusion. From now on cpu hotplug of up to
      NR_CPUS will work by default. If somebody wants to limit that then
      the possible_cpus parameter can be used.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      48483b32
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