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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ata:Remove no longer valid FIXME comment in pata_ninja32.c for the function,ninja32_init_one
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On Thursday, February 05, 2015 08:00:24 AM Nick Krause wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 06:47:41 PM Nicholas Krause wrote:
> >> Removes the no longer valid fix me comment in the function, ninja32_init_one for
> >> questioning if we are required to remove the activated device at the end of this
> >> function by calling the function, ata_host_activate to activate the device passed
> >> by the caller of the function ninja_init_one. This comment is no longer needed as
> >> we need to deallocate the memory used to store this device's information when the
> >> device is no longer in use by the system in order to avoid leaking memory. Due to
> >> this the driver in the file,ninja32_init_one has the function,ata_pci_remove_one
> >> to release the memory allocated in it's init function and therefore this comment
> >> can now be removed due to use correctly freeing the memory allocated from the
> >> driver's init function,ninja32_init_one.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c | 1 -
> >> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c b/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c
> >> index efb272d..47b30d3 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_ninja32.c
> >> @@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ static int ninja32_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> >> ap->pflags = ATA_PFLAG_PIO32 | ATA_PFLAG_PIO32CHANGE;
> >>
> >> ninja32_program(base);
> >> - /* FIXME: Should we disable them at remove ? */
> >
> > After looking at the driver history I think that the comment is about
> > ninja32_program() enabling interrupt lines (which don't get disabled when
> > the host controller is detached from the driver) not about the cleanup
> > done during ata_pci_remove_one(). Alan, is this correct?
> >
> >> return ata_host_activate(host, dev->irq, ata_bmdma_interrupt,
> >> IRQF_SHARED, &ninja32_sht);
> >> }
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> > Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> > Samsung Electronics
> >
> If that is the case then I will disable the interrupt lines for the
> host in this driver's
> remove function.

Unless you have hardware to test such change (to check that there are no
side-effects) just moving FIXME to ninja32_program() seems to be a better
approach for now..

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics



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