From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 3/3 REGENERATED] libata: implement and use ata_port_desc() to report port configuration
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:35:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D7E0F2.1020100@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070818041455.GB8590@htj.dyndns.org>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Currently, port configuration reporting has the following problems.
>
> * iomapped address is reported instead of raw address
> * report contains irrelevant fields or lacks necessary fields for
> non-SFF controllers.
> * host->irq/irq2 are there just for reporting and hacky.
>
> This patch implements and uses ata_port_desc() and
> ata_port_pbar_desc(). ata_port_desc() is almost identical to
> ata_ehi_push_desc() except that it takes @ap instead of @ehi, has no
> locking requirement, can only be used during host initialization and "
> " is used as separator instead of ", ". ata_port_pbar_desc() is a
> helper to ease reporting of a PCI BAR or an offsetted address into it.
>
> LLD pushes whatever description it wants using the above two
> functions. The accumulated description is printed on host
> registration after "[S/P]ATA max MAX_XFERMODE ".
>
> SFF init helpers and ata_host_activate() automatically add
> descriptions for addresses and irq respectively, so only LLDs which
> isn't standard SFF need to add custom descriptions. In many cases,
> such controllers need to report different things anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> ---
> Regenerated against the current #upstream (41b135c7).
applied
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-30 5:23 [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 1/3] libata: use ata_port_printk() in ata_wait_idle() Tejun Heo
2007-07-30 5:24 ` [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 2/3] libata: add printf format attribute to ehi desc functions Tejun Heo
2007-07-30 5:25 ` [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 3/3] libata: implement and use ata_port_desc() to report port configuration Tejun Heo
2007-07-30 12:55 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-15 8:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-18 4:14 ` [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 3/3 REGENERATED] " Tejun Heo
2007-08-31 9:35 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-08-15 8:49 ` [PATCH libata-dev#upstream 1/3] libata: use ata_port_printk() in ata_wait_idle() Jeff Garzik
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