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* pnp/IDE question- help fixing up a patch
@ 2002-12-12  5:01 Ted Kaminski
  2002-12-12  8:33 ` Andre Hedrick
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ted Kaminski @ 2002-12-12  5:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hello all,

I've got an ide, and an idepnp question... (for 2.4)

I'm working on refining a patch sent previously
(http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20021108061020.A14168%40localhost) to
be less intrusive. I'll be refering to things done in that patch...

The short of it is, this sb16 pnpide interface apparently cannot use
ALTSTATUS at a certain point. (I'm no ide whiz, I'm just simplifying the
code that David Meybohm wrote, so maybe I'm off a bit) at any rate, this
seems to require a new flag be listed along with the hardware information.

His solution was to add
+ int  no_passive;  /* no passive status tests */
to hw_reg_s in ide.h and check that flag in drive_is_ready()

I *think* it's out of place. It seems to me it'd be more appropriate to add
+ unsigned no_passive : 1;   /* no passive status tests */
to hwif_s in ide.h.  Right next to a few other bitfields

Which is better? or is there a different, even better spot?

As for the idepnp part, he added a "dev = NULL" into the loop, and was
unsure of whether or not this was a good idea.  I have the same question.
Or perhaps this smells of a seperate patch?

I'd rather ask these question in the form of my own patch, but... I'm a bit
short on time, atm. sorry.

Thanks in advace,
-Ted


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