Re: [PATCH] ata: increase retry count but shorten duration forCalxeda controller

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 03:35:28PM -0500, Mark Langsdorf wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 03:12 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Mark Langsdorf
> > <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>  {
> >> -       const unsigned long *timing = sata_ehc_deb_timing(&link->eh_context);
> >> +       unsigned long timing[] = { 5, 100, 500};
> > 
> > 
> > You didn't address my comments the last time you posted this.  I'll
> > post them again:
> > 
> > 
> > Why are you dropping the 'const'?
> > 
> > Assuming it works, this should be more efficient:
> > 
> > static const unsigned long timing[] = {5, 100, 500};
> 
> I thought there was a compile issue, but I just rechecked and there
> wasn't. I'll fix for the next submission.

Also, please add a comment explaining why those parameters are
necessary and how they're determined - ie. the bulk of the commit
message; otherwise, it looks pretty random.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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