Re: [PATCH 1/3] atiixp.c: remove unused code

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On 1/9/07, Conke Hu <conke.hu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/7/07, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 1/6/07, Conke Hu <conke.hu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > A previous patch to atiixp.c was removed but some code has not been
> >
> > This one?
> >
> > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab17443a3df35abe4b7529e83511a591aa7384f3
> >
> > Doesn't it break existing setups without giving ANY warning?
> >
> > theoretical (I don't have hardware in question) scenario:
> > - user uses atiixp and has modular libata/ahci (or no libata/ahci et all)
> > - user does kernel upgrade
> > - boot fails
> > - ...
> >
> > If this is true please add something like
> >
> > printk(KERN_WARNING "PCI: setting SB600 SATA to AHCI mode"
> > " (please use ahci driver instead of atiixp)\n");
> >
> > to quirk_sb600_sata() so people will at least know what is wrong...
> >
> > > cleaned. Now we remove these code sine they are no use any longer.
> >
> > Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ but the patch is line wrapped and unfortunately doesn't apply ]
> >
> > PS: please always cc: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on PATA/SATA patches
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bart
> >
>
>
> Hi Bart,
>     I've tried to access the following link to make sure which it is,
> but failed. The internet here   is almost broken.
>     http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab17443a3df35abe4b7529e83511a591aa7384f3

Yeah, kernel.org is heaving some load related problems.

>    I sent out 2 patches for the same SB600 legacy IDE issue. the later
> (sb600 pci qurik) is better so we should clean the previous patch
> which was applied to atiixp.c. -- that is what this patch does.

Yep, I was talking about "PCI: ATI sb600 sata quirk" which was merged
into -rc2.

>     BTW, I re-create and re-send the patch (see below) based on
> 2.6.20-rc4, in last patch I fogot to rename atiixp.c.1 to atiixp.c
> which may lead to patch fail, nothing else different.
>     And maybe no need to re-ACK if last one is accepted:)

As stated in the other mail - these patches are in -mm kernel already.

Thanks,
Bart
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