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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/18] ide: use ->tf_load in SELECT_DRIVE()
Hello, I wrote:

>>> There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.
>>> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
>>> Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
>>> @@ -88,11 +88,15 @@ void SELECT_DRIVE (ide_drive_t *drive)
>>> {
>>> ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
>>> const struct ide_port_ops *port_ops = hwif->port_ops;
>>> + ide_task_t task;
>>>
>>> if (port_ops && port_ops->selectproc)
>>> port_ops->selectproc(drive);
>>>
>>> - hwif->OUTB(drive->select.all, hwif->io_ports.device_addr);
>>> + memset(&task, 0, sizeof(task));
>>> + task.tf_flags = IDE_TFLAG_OUT_DEVICE;
>>> +
>>> + drive->hwif->tf_load(drive, &task);
>>
>> This actually doesn't seem like a bright idea to me, considering
>> that this gets called when starting every request. How will you look
>> at me adding the transport method for writing this register? :-)
> Convert SELECT_DRIVE() to use ->tf_load instead of ->OUTB.
>
> OTOH, adding such a "backdoor" to the taskfile doesn't seem very
> consistent... well, I'm not excited about the whole idea conversion to
> tf_{load|read}() -- it's not clear what exactly this bought us.

We at least could have saved on memset() -- tf_load() method ignores
fields other than tf_flags anyway...

MBR, Sergei




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