Re: [PATCH 0/8] ide-cd: first conversion batch

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:15:40PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 18 December 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi Bart,
> > 
> > here's the first batch of conversion patches. Now ide_issue_pc/ide_transfer_pc
> > are almost completely aligned to their ide-cd counterparts
> > cdrom_start_packet_command/cdrom_transfer_packet_command. The only thing
> 
> Looks good generally but I need more time for detailed review.
> 
> [ Your super-quick action on this has caught me unprepared. ;) ]

sorry about that, it was all in good intentions :)

> > missing is the setting of the irq handler through ide_set_handler but this
> > is not that trivial since if i'd moved ide-cd's irq handler to ide-atapi
> > that would suck in a bunch of other ide-cd functions which is not what we
> > want, (yes/no)? and I'm going to have to ponder a little bit more on that.
> 
> Yes, we don't want to move them over.  In worst case we can add
> ide_handler_t *__old_pc_handler to ide_drive_t and set it in ide-cd
> (an acceptable hack this time) but there might be better options.

Can you believe that I was just experimenting with _exactly_ the same
option :). Patches coming on tomorrow hopefully and still before the
merge window.

By the way, you've posted a bunch of ide improvements/cleanups but
they're not on kernel.org yet. What's the plan with those, do you want
to upload them first and then I redo my patches or... ?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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