On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> > Add ->read_sff_dma_status method for reading DMA Status register
> > and use it instead of ->INB.
>
> > While at it:
>
> > * Use inb() directly in ns87415.c::ns87415_dma_end().
>
> > There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- a/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
> > +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c
> > @@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ void SELECT_MASK(ide_drive_t *drive, int
> > port_ops->maskproc(drive, mask);
> > }
> >
> > +static u8 ide_read_sff_dma_status(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
> > +{
> > + if (hwif->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_MMIO)
> > + return readb((void __iomem *)hwif->dma_status);
> > + else
> > + return inb(hwif->dma_status);
> > +}
> > +
>
> It's probably too late to object now (and I've been busy before) but I
> don't understand how reading DMA status ended up here ISO ide-dma.c...
>
> > static void ide_tf_load(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_task_t *task)
> > {
> > ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif;
> > @@ -323,6 +331,8 @@ static void ata_output_data(ide_drive_t
> >
> > void default_hwif_transport(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
> > {
> > + hwif->read_sff_dma_status = ide_read_sff_dma_status;
> > +
> > hwif->tf_load = ide_tf_load;
> > hwif->tf_read = ide_tf_read;
>
> I also didn't understand the motivation behind putting this method
> together with the transport operations... IMO, DMA programming interface
> hardly has anything to do with transporting the data over IDE bus.
The motivation was that hwif->dma_ops is not available yet when
->read_sff_dma_status is used in ide_pci_check_simplex().
However I agree that it should somehow find its way into ->dma_ops
(as usual patches are stongly preffered :).
Thanks,
Bart
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