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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Fajun Chen <fajunchen@gmail.com>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question about PATA Sil680 Bus Reset Code
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:58:16 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46938268.4070209@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070709230908.08f5c8d8@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:

>>    I guess it's been blindly copied over form drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c...

    Yet the order of events between IDE and libata drivers is different:
the old driver's resetproc() method is called just after the twiddling the bit 
on/off,  the new driver calls ata_std_softreset() after the PCI config. 
register manipulation.  However, since all it does is set 2 read-only bits, it 
should make no difference...

>>The code indeed does seem meaningless. For the libata it could make sense to 
>>set bit 2 for the hardreset -- but then sil680_error_handler() needs to be 
>>turn into ata_bmdma_drive_eh(ap, ata_std_prereset, ata_std_softreset, 
>>sil680_bus_reset, ata_std_postreset)...
>>    For the legacy driver, this function needs to be converted to something 
>>sane too...

> I think the evidence based upon years of highly reliable siimage usage is
> that its simply not needed 8)

    I would think so as well but was not sure about the SStatus reg. read at 
the end of it...

MBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 16:46 Question about PATA Sil680 Bus Reset Code Fajun Chen
2007-07-09 16:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-09 18:37 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-09 18:46   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-09 18:51     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-09 22:09   ` Alan Cox
2007-07-10 12:58     ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-07-10 22:00       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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