On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:34:12PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:17:37AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > Why does the calgary driver need this? Can we just use pci_get_device() > > > > > > instead? Why do you need to walk the device list backwards? Do you get > > > > > > false positives going forward? > > > > > > > > > > It doesn't look to be performance critical so the driver can > > > > > pci_get_device until the end and use the final hit anyway. > > > > > > > > That would make more sense. > > > > > > > > > IDE reverse is more problematic but nobody seems to use it. > > > > > > > > I've seen two posters say they use it. I'm wondering what it is really > > > > solving if they use it, and why if it's really needed, scsi never had to > > > > implement such a hack... > > > > > > It is no longer solving anything, just adds more pain. ;) > > > > > > [ The option comes from 2.2.x (so long before LABEL=/ and /dev/disk/by-id/ > > > became popular). Some "off-board" controllers integrated on motherboards > > > used to appear before "on-board" IDE on PCI bus so this option was meant > > > to preserve the legacy ordering. ] > > > > > > Since it is valid only when "Probe IDE PCI devices in the PCI bus order > > > (DEPRECATED)" config option is used it is already on its way out (though > > > marking it as obsoleted would make it more explicit). > > > > > > I think that removing "ide=reverse" in 2.6.26 would be OK... > > > > Great, thanks for your blessing. I'll make up a patch and send it to > > you for approval. > > How does the patch below look? I didn't want to remove the whole config > option, as there is more to the logic than just the "reverse order" > stuff there. looks fine, Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > If you don't mind, can I take this through the PCI tree so as to allow > the removal of this pci function afterwards? [...] great, could you also: - rebase it on top of the patch below - forward the patch below to Linus for 2.6.25 ? From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ide: mark "ide=reverse" option as obsolete - it is valid only if "Probe IDE PCI devices in the PCI bus order (DEPRECATED)" config option is used - Greg needs to remove pci_get_device_reverse() for PCI core changes Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ide/ide.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/ide/ide.c =================================================================== --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s) if (!strcmp(s, "ide=reverse")) { ide_scan_direction = 1; printk(" : Enabled support for IDE inverse scan order.\n"); - return 1; + goto obsolete_option; } #endif - 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