Jan Beulich wrote: > I understand your concern, but I think you also understand mine. So > I'm not really asking for general reversal of the logic, but to perhaps > make it just a little smarter. The (not generally usable according to > what you said earlier) experiment I made was to use the smaller of > the two sets - if either set is empty this of course wouldn't be correct. > But perhaps, if you have a non-empty port map, that should be > preferred over nr_ports? Otherwise, chipset specific knowledge may > need to be applied here (i.e. for ESB2, port map ought to always be > used)... Yes, we can be more smart if necessary. I don't know. The hardware is clearly violating the spec which requires those two values to agree. What status values are you seeing? Hardware vendors usually don't get n_ports wrong from the start, they probably have forgotten to decrement it by one when one of the ports is plugged for some reason. I bet the silicon for the port is there and reporting offline PHY, right? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html