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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: David Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_promise and SATA+PATA controllers in general
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:11:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <432E1E6B.7040001@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509181644210.10435@ultros>

David Lloyd wrote:
> Does this mean have e.g. a pata_port_ops member as well as a 
> sata_port_ops member on the ata_probe_ent/ata_host_set, and mark each 
> port as being either PATA or SATA with a flag of some sort?  Or, would 

definitely not.


> it be best to have a port_ops pointer per port?

Each port should be able to export unique behavior.  That implies having 
per-port hooks, since host-global hooks make it impossible for one port 
to have different hooks from another port.

Establishing a global limit of two unique behaviors (sata_port_ops, 
pata_port_ops) is not scalable at all.

Further complicating things, some hooks (such as ->irq_clear) are 
host-wide hooks and not port-specific hooks.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-19  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-18 22:21 sata_promise and SATA+PATA controllers in general David Lloyd
2005-09-19  2:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-11-09  5:50   ` David Lloyd

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