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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:53:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061213145325.41fc4300@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45800B4D.8000906@ru.mvista.com>

> >>+static int tc86c001_busproc(ide_drive_t *drive, int state)
> >>+{
> 
> > Waste of space having a busproc routine. The maintainer removed all the
> > usable hotplug support from old IDE so this might as well be dropped.
> 
>     Don't know what you mean, ioctl is still there...

You can turn the bus on and off but there is no ability to actually swap
drives except in RHEL4 and 2.4.x-ac kernels. Hence "waste of space"

> > "Close but no cookie": please fix the PCI quirk to match the current -mm
> > behaviour with the ATA resource tree. Otherwise - nice driver.
> 
>     Ugh, I should've expected some backstab from -mm tree...

If it is native only then there are no problems with the quirk 

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 22:48 [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-12 22:57 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-12 23:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-12 23:07   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-12 23:12     ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-12 23:41 ` Alan
2006-12-13  1:09   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-12-13 11:32     ` Alan
2006-12-13 14:01       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-12-13 14:16         ` Alan
2006-12-13 14:19           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-12-13 14:16   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-13 14:53     ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-13  0:40 ` Alan

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