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SubjectRe: another IDE cleanup: kill duplicated code
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:52:35AM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> >This is slightly longer but also simple cleanup. It kills code
> >duplication and removes unneccessary assignments/casts. Please apply,

> If you are already at it, I would like to ask to you consider seriously
> the removal of the
> following entries in the ide drivers /proc control files:
>
> ide_add_setting(drive, "breada_readahead", ... 1,
> 2, &read_ahead[major], NULL);
> ide_add_setting(drive, "file_readahead", ...
> &max_readahead[major][minor], NULL);
>
> Those calls can be found in ide-cd.c, ide-disk,c and ide-floppy.c
>
> The first does control an array of values, which doesn't make sense in
> first place. I.e. changing it doesn't
> change ANY behaviour of the kernel.

Actually HFS uses it ...

> The second of them is trying to control a file-system level constant
> inside the actual block device driver. This is a blatant violation of
> the layering principle in software design, and should go as soon as
> possible.

Yes. But still block device drivers allocate the array ...

Patch attached.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
diff -urN linux-2.5.4/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c linux-2.5.4-ideclean/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
--- linux-2.5.4/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c Thu Jan 31 16:45:20 2002
+++ linux-2.5.4-ideclean/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c Tue Feb 12 12:34:48 2002
@@ -2662,8 +2662,6 @@
int major = HWIF(drive)->major;
int minor = drive->select.b.unit << PARTN_BITS;

- ide_add_setting(drive, "breada_readahead", SETTING_RW, BLKRAGET, BLKRASET, TYPE_INT, 0, 255, 1, 2, &read_ahead[major], NULL);
- ide_add_setting(drive, "file_readahead", SETTING_RW, BLKFRAGET, BLKFRASET, TYPE_INTA, 0, INT_MAX, 1, 1024, &max_readahead[major][minor], NULL);
ide_add_setting(drive, "dsc_overlap", SETTING_RW, -1, -1, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 1, 1, 1, &drive->dsc_overlap, NULL);
}

diff -urN linux-2.5.4/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c linux-2.5.4-ideclean/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
--- linux-2.5.4/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c Tue Feb 12 12:22:53 2002
+++ linux-2.5.4-ideclean/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c Tue Feb 12 12:34:09 2002
@@ -916,8 +916,6 @@
ide_add_setting(drive, "bswap", SETTING_READ, -1, -1, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 1, 1, 1, &drive->bswap, NULL);
ide_add_setting(drive, "multcount", id ? SETTING_RW : SETTING_READ, HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT, HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT, TYPE_BYTE, 0, id ? id->max_multsect : 0, 1, 1, &drive->mult_count, set_multcount);
ide_add_setting(drive, "nowerr", SETTING_RW, HDIO_GET_NOWERR, HDIO_SET_NOWERR, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 1, 1, 1, &drive->nowerr, set_nowerr);
- ide_add_setting(drive, "breada_readahead", SETTING_RW, BLKRAGET, BLKRASET, TYPE_INT, 0, 255, 1, 1, &read_ahead[major], NULL);
- ide_add_setting(drive, "file_readahead", SETTING_RW, BLKFRAGET, BLKFRASET, TYPE_INTA, 0, 4096, PAGE_SIZE, 1024, &max_readahead[major][minor], NULL);
ide_add_setting(drive, "lun", SETTING_RW, -1, -1, TYPE_INT, 0, 7, 1, 1, &drive->lun, NULL);
ide_add_setting(drive, "wcache", SETTING_RW, HDIO_GET_WCACHE, HDIO_SET_WCACHE, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 1, 1, 1, &drive->wcache, write_cache);
ide_add_setting(drive, "acoustic", SETTING_RW, HDIO_GET_ACOUSTIC, HDIO_SET_ACOUSTIC, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 254, 1, 1, &drive->acoustic, set_acoustic);
diff -urN linux-2.5.4/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c linux-2.5.4-ideclean/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
--- linux-2.5.4/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c Thu Jan 31 16:45:20 2002
+++ linux-2.5.4-ideclean/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c Tue Feb 12 12:34:15 2002
@@ -1968,8 +1968,6 @@
ide_add_setting(drive, "bios_cyl", SETTING_RW, -1, -1, TYPE_INT, 0, 1023, 1, 1, &drive->bios_cyl, NULL);
ide_add_setting(drive, "bios_head", SETTING_RW, -1, -1, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 255, 1, 1, &drive->bios_head, NULL);
ide_add_setting(drive, "bios_sect", SETTING_RW, -1, -1, TYPE_BYTE, 0, 63, 1, 1, &drive->bios_sect, NULL);
- ide_add_setting(drive, "breada_readahead", SETTING_RW, BLKRAGET, BLKRASET, TYPE_INT, 0, 255, 1, 2, &read_ahead[major], NULL);
- ide_add_setting(drive, "file_readahead", SETTING_RW, BLKFRAGET, BLKFRASET, TYPE_INTA, 0, INT_MAX, 1, 1024, &max_readahead[major][minor], NULL);

}
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