Re: [PATCH 01/18] ide: add ->read_sff_dma_status method

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Sun Sep 07 2008 - 14:14:43 EST


Hello.

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

static void ide_tf_load(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_task_t *task)
{
ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
@@ -323,6 +331,8 @@ static void ata_output_data(ide_drive_t

void default_hwif_transport(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
{
+ hwif->read_sff_dma_status = ide_read_sff_dma_status;
+
hwif->tf_load = ide_tf_load;
hwif->tf_read = ide_tf_read;

I also didn't understand the motivation behind putting this method together with the transport operations... IMO, DMA programming interface hardly has anything to do with transporting the data over IDE bus.

The motivation was that hwif->dma_ops is not available yet when
->read_sff_dma_status is used in ide_pci_check_simplex().

However I agree that it should somehow find its way into ->dma_ops
(as usual patches are stongly preffered :).

Unless I'm missing something changing the place where hwif->dma_ops is initialized to sff_dma_ops (along the lines it was changed for hwif->dma_base) seems pretty trivial, so I wonder why you didn't do it in the same patch...
Hm, I guess I'm seeing a real issue with this patch...

Thanks,
Bart

MBR, Sergei
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