Re: IDE cleanup for 2.5.4-pre3

[Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>]

Pavel Machek wrote:

>Hi!
>
>>It seems bigger as it is at first glance, however if you start to read 
>>it at ide.h, the rest should
>>be, well,  obivous...
>>
>
>Ouch, its *big*. You should probably start pushing it to Jens ASAP,
>because if you'll clean up it a bit more, you'll end with really big
>patch which rewrites whole drivers/ide... [Not that it would be a bad
>thing.]
>

Well the atomic part of the patch is rather small if you look at it. But 
in hell unfortunately there is
no way around to make the consequences smaller. I would be much happier 
if it could be
done otherway around... but I see no way if one want's to preserve the 
drivers in a functional state.

>My favourite cleanup would be 
>
>struct ide_drive_s {} ide_drive_t;
>
>=>
>
>struct ide_drive {};
>
>and replacing all ide_drive_t with struct ide_drive...
>

That will happen.