From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] ata: libahci: allow to use multiple PHYs Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:59:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20140709135910.GA11193@htj.dyndns.org> References: <1404728173-20263-1-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <1404728173-20263-4-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <20140708134000.GC4979@htj.dyndns.org> <20140708170353.GA16148@kwain> <20140708171817.GH4979@htj.dyndns.org> <20140708174900.GC16148@kwain> <20140708214010.GI4979@htj.dyndns.org> <20140709082331.GA4510@kwain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140709082331.GA4510@kwain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Antoine =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=E9nart?= Cc: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com, kishon@ti.com, alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, zmxu@marvell.com, jszhang@marvell.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hans de Goede List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:23:31AM +0200, Antoine T=E9nart wrote: > > It is confusing. If you wanna pass around available ports in hpriv= , > > please add a separate field and replace the arguments to > > save_initial_config(). >=20 > I don't get it. Which argument should I replace in > save_initial_config()? The change is we compute hpriv->port_map. > I don't see which arguments we can add or replace. The @force_port_map and @mask_port_map of ahci_save_initial_config(). We end up with three params from two places modifying port_map and one of those is in/out parameter, so ummm, no. If you wanna add port masking to @hpriv, please do it by moving @force_port_map and @mask_port_map into @hpriv instead. Sure, the proposed change is small but the end result is messy. > I had a quick look on this, and it does not seems to be that simple. = The > ahci_port_priv is stored inside the ata_port struct and not accessibl= e > (as of now) from the ahci_host_priv one. The ahci_port_priv is > initialized at the end of ahci_platform_init_host(), far after we nee= d > it. This requires quite a lot of changes. Or is there another way? Yeah, it'd probably need separating out port resource handling, so that the order is get_resources, host_alloc, get_port_resources and then init and activate. Hans, what do you think? > To be honest, we are now at v9 and it's been quite a long time since = v1. > I'd really like it to be merged in 3.17. As I see it, this patch keep= s > the same logic as what was in place before, only with more PHYs. >=20 > Don't take me wrong, I really think this is a good idea to have a > per-port PHY information. But this is a refactoring not clearly relat= ed > to this series as the logic is not changed. This definitively can be = the > subject of a dedicated series, especially if I got it right and the > required modifications are not that obvious. Heh, I get that but, at the same time, this is the point where you're most motivated to actually work on it. :) Let's see how much work it's gonna be. Thanks. --=20 tejun