> I thought that you could simply set .flags in a driver without needing > any helper for .cable_detect . In some cases yes, but exporting the complete set provides a logical and complete API for drivers in case they do need to do so. -- 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