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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: nabiki@teleline.es, kaos@ocs.com.au, stevenm@umd.edu,
	jfs@keytradebank.com, 0602@eq.cz, akpm@osdl.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ata_piix: clean up port flags
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:19:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45482E73.70004@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45482CC1.9090301@gmail.com>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> * move common flags into PIIX_PATA_FLAGS and PIIX_SATA_FLAGS
>>> * kill unnecessary ATA_FLAG_SRST
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
>>
>> AFAICS, SRST is quite necessary on PATA.  What's going on?  There 
>> isn't much of any explanation for the SRST removal here :/
> 
> Both reset flags ATA_FLAG_SATA_RESET and ATA_FLAG_SRST are used to tell 
> old EH how to reset and probe the port.  In new EH, those flags don't 
> play any role.  What method to use and in what sequence is upto 
> ->error_handler() now.  For PATA piix, it only implements SRST, so 
> that's gonna be used.  For SATA piix, ata_bmdma_drive_eh() always 
> prefers SRST on boot probe.
> 
> Once sata_promise/mv/.. are converted to new EH, the above two reset 
> flags can be removed.

Ah, duh.  I knew that, thanks for the clue-hammer :)

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-30  6:46 [PATCHSET] libata: implement presence detection using polling IDENTIFY for ata_piix Tejun Heo
2006-09-30  6:46 ` [PATCH 2/6] libata: unexport ata_dev_revalidate() Tejun Heo
2006-09-30  6:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] libata: convert @post_reset to @flags in ata_dev_read_id() Tejun Heo
2006-11-01  5:36   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-30  6:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] ata_piix: clean up port flags Tejun Heo
2006-11-01  4:55   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-01  5:12     ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-01  5:19       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-11-01  5:35   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-30  6:46 ` [PATCH 5/6] ata_piix: apply device detection via polling IDENTIFY Tejun Heo
2006-09-30  6:46 ` [PATCH 6/6] ata_piix: strip now unneded MAP related stuff Tejun Heo
2006-09-30  6:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] libata: implement presence detection via polling IDENTIFY Tejun Heo
2006-09-30  8:59 ` [PATCHSET] libata: implement presence detection using polling IDENTIFY for ata_piix Alessandro Bono
2006-09-30  9:09   ` Alessandro Bono

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