diff --git a/Documentation/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide.txt
index b29ccb43d6cc95692404bd60aed6e2a1cf349844..94e2e3b9e77f03ebcb0a3d0b146e53397a6fcfc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ide.txt
@@ -244,10 +244,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
 
  "hdx=nodma"		: disallow DMA
 
- "hdx=swapdata"		: when the drive is a disk, byte swap all data
-
- "hdx=bswap"		: same as above..........
-
  "hdx=scsi"		: the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for
  			  allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
  			  to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option.
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
index c1fb75c387ea8f474db51f4dc384f9e5940c3a23..041be43a62cbd5fc4b06abbaff39cb254fa9d1ad 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
@@ -761,7 +761,6 @@ static void idedisk_add_settings(ide_drive_t *drive)
 	ide_add_setting(drive,	"bios_head",	SETTING_RW,	TYPE_BYTE,	0,	255,			1,	1,	&drive->bios_head,	NULL);
 	ide_add_setting(drive,	"bios_sect",	SETTING_RW,	TYPE_BYTE,	0,	63,			1,	1,	&drive->bios_sect,	NULL);
 	ide_add_setting(drive,	"address",	SETTING_RW,	TYPE_BYTE,	0,	2,			1,	1,	&drive->addressing,	set_lba_addressing);
-	ide_add_setting(drive,	"bswap",	SETTING_READ,	TYPE_BYTE,	0,	1,			1,	1,	&drive->bswap,		NULL);
 	ide_add_setting(drive,	"multcount",	SETTING_RW,	TYPE_BYTE,	0,	id->max_multsect,	1,	1,	&drive->mult_count,	set_multcount);
 	ide_add_setting(drive,	"nowerr",	SETTING_RW,	TYPE_BYTE,	0,	1,			1,	1,	&drive->nowerr,		set_nowerr);
 	ide_add_setting(drive,	"lun",		SETTING_RW,	TYPE_INT,	0,	7,			1,	1,	&drive->lun,		NULL);
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c b/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c
index c58edc86ed3eb8d1722e3b19abc565803409d35c..3ecafab8f54e615f968e53562b92a2d357429219 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c
@@ -35,34 +35,6 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
-static void ata_bswap_data (void *buffer, int wcount)
-{
-	u16 *p = buffer;
-
-	while (wcount--) {
-		*p = *p << 8 | *p >> 8; p++;
-		*p = *p << 8 | *p >> 8; p++;
-	}
-}
-
-static void taskfile_input_data(ide_drive_t *drive, void *buffer, u32 wcount)
-{
-	HWIF(drive)->ata_input_data(drive, buffer, wcount);
-	if (drive->bswap)
-		ata_bswap_data(buffer, wcount);
-}
-
-static void taskfile_output_data(ide_drive_t *drive, void *buffer, u32 wcount)
-{
-	if (drive->bswap) {
-		ata_bswap_data(buffer, wcount);
-		HWIF(drive)->ata_output_data(drive, buffer, wcount);
-		ata_bswap_data(buffer, wcount);
-	} else {
-		HWIF(drive)->ata_output_data(drive, buffer, wcount);
-	}
-}
-
 void ide_tf_load(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_task_t *task)
 {
 	ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
@@ -352,9 +324,9 @@ static void ide_pio_sector(ide_drive_t *drive, unsigned int write)
 
 	/* do the actual data transfer */
 	if (write)
-		taskfile_output_data(drive, buf, SECTOR_WORDS);
+		hwif->ata_output_data(drive, buf, SECTOR_WORDS);
 	else
-		taskfile_input_data(drive, buf, SECTOR_WORDS);
+		hwif->ata_input_data(drive, buf, SECTOR_WORDS);
 
 	kunmap_atomic(buf, KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
index 5f3e53ec58380d169ba9fbb840b8a8526c947e41..52115ef1f01a6df2589e10497a264e8e6efd501e 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
 	if (s[0] == 'h' && s[1] == 'd' && s[2] >= 'a' && s[2] <= max_drive) {
 		const char *hd_words[] = {
 			"none", "noprobe", "nowerr", "cdrom", "nodma",
-			"autotune", "noautotune", "minus8", "swapdata", "bswap",
+			"autotune", "noautotune", "-8", "-9", "-10",
 			"noflush", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
 		unit = s[2] - 'a';
 		hw   = unit / MAX_DRIVES;
@@ -1339,10 +1339,6 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
 			case -7: /* "noautotune" */
 				drive->autotune = IDE_TUNE_NOAUTO;
 				goto obsolete_option;
-			case -9: /* "swapdata" */
-			case -10: /* "bswap" */
-				drive->bswap = 1;
-				goto done;
 			case -11: /* noflush */
 				drive->noflush = 1;
 				goto done;
diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
index 74f1ef9c6d940a8a1ff92d93925bdf7bda9b25d9..f94cf036bd955cac0621f0325a3ca3c3f7b76285 100644
--- a/include/linux/ide.h
+++ b/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -394,7 +394,6 @@ typedef struct ide_drive_s {
 	u8	state;			/* retry state */
 	u8	waiting_for_dma;	/* dma currently in progress */
 	u8	unmask;			/* okay to unmask other irqs */
-	u8	bswap;			/* byte swap data */
 	u8	noflush;		/* don't attempt flushes */
 	u8	dsc_overlap;		/* DSC overlap */
 	u8	nice1;			/* give potential excess bandwidth */