Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I finally dusted off /proc/ide/hd*/settings rework (this has been laying > on my hdd and waiting for the better days for at least 1.5 year, draft > version even longer like ~3 years... sigh). > > The main motivation for doing it is that with infrastructure for private > IDE subsystem requests from Elias Oltmanns (which was merged recently) > and this patchset it should be possible (by using private requests for > device settings) to make IDE locking code a lot saner and get rid of > of ide_spin_wait_hwgroup()-ugliness completely. > > Elias if you would like to take care of it please go ahead [ from a quick > look it seems this would mostly require adding new request type, pointing > rq->special to setting's ->get or ->set method and putting setting's type > (read/write -> 1 bit) + argument (int) somewhere inside request but you > probably know better ]. Yes, I'll have a go at it. I haven't quite figured out yet whether I can (or should, for that matter) get rid of drive->special and convert the rest accordingly. Anyway, I probably won't get it done before next week. Regards, Elias -- 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
