From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"J.A. Magall?n" <jamagallon@ono.com>,
"Linux-Kernel," <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.18-rc2-mm1] libata ate one PATA channel
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:05:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CE5473.8080903@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CE515B.1060302@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> I like 'registering both always and disabling one' approach for
> partially stolen legacy devices. We can make ->hard_port_no do the job
> as before, but IMHO it's error-prone and only useful for very limited
> cases (first legacy port stolen).
>
> Jeff, what do you think?
The reason for hard_port_no's existence is the fact that is can
sometimes differ from port_no, and we need to know the "real" port
number, as opposed to the port number based on counting probed ports.
If you eliminate the need for hard_port_no, feel free to erase it.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 11:45 [2.6.18-rc2-mm1] libata ate one PATA channel J.A. Magallón
2006-07-30 19:53 ` Tejun Heo
2006-07-31 15:24 ` J.A. Magallón
2006-07-31 16:00 ` Tejun Heo
2006-07-31 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-31 16:50 ` Tejun Heo
2006-07-31 17:03 ` Tejun Heo
2006-07-31 18:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-31 18:52 ` Tejun Heo
2006-07-31 19:05 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-07-31 18:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-31 21:41 ` J.A. Magallón
2006-08-01 6:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 7:32 ` Tejun Heo
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