Re: [PATCH 6/6] ide: rework handling of serialized ports

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 13:35:23 EST


Hello, I wrote:

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c

[...]

@@ -1436,10 +1398,8 @@ static void ide_init_port(ide_hwif_t *hw
}
if ((d->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_SERIALIZE) ||
- ((d->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_SERIALIZE_DMA) && hwif->dma_base)) {
- if (hwif->mate)
- hwif->mate->serialized = hwif->serialized = 1;
- }
+ ((d->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_SERIALIZE_DMA) && hwif->dma_base))
+ hwif->host_flags |= IDE_HFLAG_SERIALIZE;

I don't see what use is forcing this flag at all here -- it doesn't seem to be checked only in init_irq() now, so this *if* could just be moved there...

Oops, rephrasing hurts sometimes: I meant "it seems", of course. :-)

MBR, Sergei
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