Re: [PATCH 2/6] ide: move SFF I/O code to ide-io-sff.c

[Alan Cox]

> > BTW if you moved to ioreadX you could get rid of almost all the readb/inb
> > special casing.
> 
>     And burden the driver code with function calls ISO in/out instructions, at 
> least on x86. It's somewhat arguable move.

And exactly how do you think the IDE accessors in the file get called ?
It's already making function calls, without the benefit of inlining and
sharing common paths across architectures that can handle more than just
PIO v MMIO but also other addressing modes.
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