Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

Hello Tejun,

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:01:58 +0900, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Hello, Bartlomiej.  Happy new lunar year.
> 
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > I would prefer to not teach do_rw_taskfile() about ->tf_{in,out}_flags
> > (and convert all users to use helpers) - it is much simpler this way,
> >
> > ->flags field in ide_task_t is needed anyway (32-bit I/O flag).
> >
> 
>   New lunar year day is one of the biggest holidays here, so I haven't
> got time to work for a few days.  As it's over now, I began to work on
> ide drivers again.  I applied your task->flags patch and am moving my
> patches over it.
> 
>   One problem is that, with ATA_TFLAG_LBA48, whether to use HOB
> registers or not cannot be determined separately for writing and
> reading.  So, when initializing flush tasks, if WIN_FLUSH_CACHE_EXT is
> used, we need to turn on ATA_TFLAG_LBA48 to read error location
> properly, and we end up unnecessarily writing HOB registers.

Yep, good catch.

>   I think we can...
> 
>   1. Just leave it as it is.  It's not that big a deal.
>   2. Use another flag(s) to control LBA48 reading/writing separately.
>   3. do my proposal. :-)
> 
>   I'm currently sticking to #1.  Please let me know what you think.

agreed, #1 is a good choice, it is not that important to make things
more complicated

Thanks,
Bartlomiej