Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
* Factor out code for finding ide_hwifs[] slot from ide_register_hw() to ide_deprecated_find_port().
* Convert bast-ide, ide-cs and delkin_cb host drivers to use ide_device_add() instead of ide_register_hw() (while at it drop doing "ide_unregister()" loop which tries to unregister _all_ IDE interfaces if useable ide_hwifs[] slot cannot be find).
Er... this patch didn't actually drop that loop (late remark :-).
This patch leaves us with only two ide_register_hw() users: - drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c - drivers/ide/ide.c
I wonder whether ide_register_hw() was much good at all since it didn't actually permit to register chips using MMIO: you couldn't pass that info via 'hw' and it set 'hwif->noprobe' to 0, thus giving you no chance to skip probing which wouldn't work anyway; for the same reason it was no good for DMA capable chips since you had not time to install ide_dma_check() and other DMA methods. Am I right here?
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