Re: [patch 1/2] libata: _GTF support

From: Kristen Carlson Accardi
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 12:55:08 EST


On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:07:07 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:29:01AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>
> I mentioned this to Randy a while back, but I can't remember what sort
> of resolution we came to. In any case:
>
> > + * sata_get_dev_handle - finds acpi_handle and PCI device.function
>
> I'm a bit uncomfortable that we seem to have two quite different ways of
> accomplishing much the same thing. On the PCI bus, we have a callback
> that gets triggered whenever a new PCI device is attached. At that
> point, we look for the associated ACPI object and put a pointer to that
> in the device structure. Then, whenever we want to make an ACPI call, we
> can simply refer to that.
>
> This implementation seems to reimplement much of the same lookup code,
> but makes it libata specific. Wouldn't it be cleaner to implement it in
> a similar way to PCI? The only real downside is that you need to add a
> callback in the ata bus code. drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c/pci_acpi_init is
> the sort of thing required.
>
> (Thinking ahead, would that make it easier to maintain links in sysfs
> between devices and acpi objects?)
>
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

This makes sense to me. I'm happy to put together some patches for
commenting on if people think this is a good way to go. It would be
much cleaner in my opinion and we could get rid of a good chunk of code.

Kristen
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