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    [PATCH] 2.5.18 IDE 71 · 4478f040
    Martin Dalecki authored
     - Rewritten Artop host chip driver by Vojtech Pavlik. His log entries are:
    
       Cleanup whitespace.
    
       Remove superfluous chip entries in chip table.  Remove global variables to
       allow more than one controller.  Remove other forgotten stuff.
    
       This is a new driver for the Artop (Acard) controllers. It's completely
       untested, as I have never seen the hardware. However, I suspect it is much
       less broken than the previous one ...
    
       UDMA33 controller cannot detect 80-wire cable.
    
     - Separate ioctl handling out from ide.c. It's big enough.
    
     - Move atapi_read and atapi_write to the new atapi module.  Fix the declaration
       of those functions. The data buffer did have the void * type!
    
     - Separate module handling code out from actual transfer handling code in to a
       new module called main.c. Slowly we are at the stage where the code indeed
       has to be organized logically and not just "sporadically" as was the case
       before.
    
     - Apply patch by Adam Richter for the ide-scsi.c attach method implementation.
       This particular driver is still broken due to generic SCSI layer issues.
    
     - Apply true modularization patch for qd65xx.c by Samuel Thibault. Here
       are his notes about it:
    
       Then, patch-modularize-2.[45] is a proposal for modularizing qd65xx.o. As a
       single module, one can choose to insmod it before being able to do some
       hdparm -p /dev/hd[a-d]. But one can't remove it while tuned, since selectproc
       may be needed.
    
       I am sorry I wasn't able to test it under 2.5 series, lacking a functionning
       kernel for my test computer, but it seemed to work perfectly under 2.4
       series, and patches are almost the same.
    
     - Move PCI device id's to where they belong. Patch by Vojtech Pavlik.
    
     - Don't use BH_Lock in ide-tape.c - somehow this driver scares me sometimes.
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