Re: [PATCH 2/9] ide-disk: set_addressing() fixes

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 23 August 2008, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> > * Return -EIO if arg > 0 and LBA48 is unsupported.
> >
> > * No need to reset ->addressing.
> >
> > * Make ->addressing a single bit flag.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> >   
> [...]
> > Index: b/include/linux/ide.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- a/include/linux/ide.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/ide.h
> > @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ struct ide_drive_s {
> >  	unsigned sleeping	: 1;	/* 1=sleeping & sleep field valid */
> >  	unsigned post_reset	: 1;
> >  	unsigned udma33_warned	: 1;
> > -	unsigned addressing	: 2;	/* 0=28-bit, 1=48-bit, 2=48-bit doing 28-bit */
> > +	unsigned addressing	: 1;	/* 0=28-bit, 1=48-bit */
> >  	unsigned wcache		: 1;	/* status of write cache */
> >  	unsigned nowerr		: 1;	/* used for ignoring ATA_DF */
> >   
> 
>    Don't you want to get rid of things like:
> 
>         u8 lba48 = (drive->addressing == 1) ? 1 : 0;

This was dealt with in "[PATCH 5/9] ide: add device flags" - since patch
#5/9 was going to touch the code anyway and there were no benefits besides
aesthetics in doing it in #2/9 I optimized the development process a bit...