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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] ide: use ->tf_load in SELECT_DRIVE()
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:23:00 +0300
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To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Hello, I wrote:

>>> There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.
>>> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
>>> Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
>>> @@ -88,11 +88,15 @@ void SELECT_DRIVE (ide_drive_t *drive)
>>>  {
>>>      ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
>>>      const struct ide_port_ops *port_ops = hwif->port_ops;
>>> +    ide_task_t task;
>>>  
>>>      if (port_ops && port_ops->selectproc)
>>>          port_ops->selectproc(drive);
>>>  
>>> -    hwif->OUTB(drive->select.all, hwif->io_ports.device_addr);
>>> +    memset(&task, 0, sizeof(task));
>>> +    task.tf_flags = IDE_TFLAG_OUT_DEVICE;
>>> +
>>> +    drive->hwif->tf_load(drive, &task);
>>
>>    This actually doesn't seem like a bright idea to me, considering 
>> that this gets called when starting every request. How will you look 
>> at me adding the transport method for writing this register? :-)
> Convert SELECT_DRIVE() to use ->tf_load instead of ->OUTB.
>
>   OTOH, adding such a "backdoor" to the taskfile doesn't seem very 
> consistent...

   ... which didn't prevent libata from having such backdoor though, in 
the form of dev_select() method.

MBR, Sergei