[PATCH/RFC 0/4] libata: more irq driven pio follow-up patches

[Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>]

Dear all,

More irq driven PIO follow-up patches (revised).

Changes:
  1. merge the ata_dataout_task workqueue with the ata_pio_task workqueue
  2. add read/write multiple support

patch 1/4: misc fixes
   - ata_pio_block(): add ata_altstatus(ap) to prevent reading device status before it is valid
   - remove the unnecessary HSM_ST_IDLE state from ata_pio_task()
   - raise BUG() when unknown state is found in ata_pio_task()

patch 2/4: merge the ata_dataout_task workqueue with the ata_pio_task workqueue
   - remove ap->dataout_task from struct ata_port
   - let ata_pio_task() handle the HSM_ST_FIRST state.
   - rename ata_dataout_task() to ata_pio_first_block()

patch 3/4: eliminate unnecessary queuing in ata_pio_first_block()
   - change the return value of ata_pio_complete()
   - add return value to ata_pio_first_block()
   - rename the variable "qc_completed" to "has_next" in ata_pio_task()
   - use "has_next" to eliminate unnecessary queuing in ata_pio_first_block()

patch 4/4: add read/write multiple support
   - add is_multi_taskfile() to ata.h
   - initialize ata_device->multi_count with device identify data
   - use ata_pio_sectors() to support r/w multiple commands

Patch against the libata-dev irq-pio branch (cd8200e6d4f9f05e6ea48f7c000be890337396ac).

For your review and advice, thanks.

Albert