Re: [PATCH 1/6] icside: fix ->speedproc to return on unsupported modes

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On Friday 13 July 2007, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > weeeeee, take 3
> 
> I'm probably going to drop this driver as soon as the PATA people get
> their finger(s) out and respond to the issues I raised when merging
> the pata_icside driver.
> 
> > v3:
> > * Remove no longer needed initialization/checking of cycle_time
> >   (Noticed by Sergei).
> > 
> > * No need to set drive->drive_data if DMA is not going to be used
> >   (Noticed by Sergei).
> > 
> > * Remove incorrect setting of drive->current_speed
> >   (Noticed by Sergei).
> > 
> > * Move ide_config_drive_speed() at the end of icside_set_speed().
> 
> What happens if we set a DMA mode but ide_config_drive_speed()
> fails?  Wouldn't we set drive_data to the timing for that mode
> and start to use it for future DMA accesses?

If ide_config_drive_speed() fails then icside_dma_check() also fails
so IDE core doesn't enable DMA.  Therefore we never start DMA engine
and icside_dma_setup() (the only place which reads drive->drive_data)
is never called.

Thanks,
Bart
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