From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] libata: glob_match for ata_device_blacklist Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:34:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4C2CB58F.1020001@teksavvy.com> References: <4C2CB497.3000701@teksavvy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:26509 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752171Ab0GAPel (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:34:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C2CB497.3000701@teksavvy.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: IDE/ATA development list , Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik On 01/07/10 11:30 AM, Mark Lord wrote: > > Replace rudimentry pattern matching with more capable shell-style globbing. > This will enable shrinking ata_device_blacklist[] table in subsequent patches, .. I am working on this, because a future device to be added (not ready yet) to the blacklist table requires matching on only the end of the firmware string. The old pattern matcher cannot handle that case, so.. In the meanwhile, this gives us decent memory savings, and makes the list easier to maintain even for current entries. Cheers Mark