Re: [PATCH 6/7] ide: pass number of ports to ide_host_{alloc,add}()

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 16:19:45 EST


Hello.

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ icside_register_v6(struct icside_state *
struct ide_host *host;
unsigned int sel = 0;
int ret;
- hw_regs_t hw[2], *hws[] = { &hw[0], NULL, NULL, NULL };
+ hw_regs_t hw[2], *hws[] = { &hw[0], NULL };
I wonder if there's an old bug here since I'm not seeing when hws[1] is set to non-NULL -- despite there are apparently two ports?

Indeed, this bug seems to date back to the 'struct ide_host' introduction, see this:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=48c3c1072651922ed153bcf0a33ea82cf20df390#patch1...

Care to send a fix?

I will...

MBR, Sergei


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