Hi,
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi Bart,
>
> here's a first attempt at removing all references to ide_atapi_pc in the ATAPI
> IRQ handler. I've moved some of the members to the drive struct and will deal
> with them later :). The next step is to add an ide_atapi_queue_pc() routine
Hmm. I recall discussing this before and having some concerns about struct
ide_atapi_pc removal idea probably being premature...
Looking at the patchset itself -- I'm very sorry but I just cannot apply it
with all these command specific fields going into ide_drive_t:
unsigned long pc_flags;
int pc_req_xfer;
int pc_buf_size;
int pc_error;
While they may look similar to the existing pc_* fields:
/* callback for packet commands */
void (*pc_callback)(struct ide_drive_s *, int);
void (*pc_update_buffers)(struct ide_drive_s *, struct ide_atapi_pc *);
int (*pc_io_buffers)(struct ide_drive_s *, struct ide_atapi_pc *,
unsigned int, int);
they are clearly not. Existing pc_* callbacks are per-device type (they
should have been probably named drv_*) and new ones are per-command ones.
I also don't see a way for code to differentiate between pc and failed_pc.
Moreover if we would like to ever add support for multiple queued commands
(actually I think that in a very limited way ide-tape does it already with
DSC) we would have to completely revert these changes.
Re-assuming: this is one-step forward / one-step back approach and not
exactly the kind of design that we would like to advocate.
> similar to ide_cd_queue_pc() and then rewrite all functions in the drivers to
> use struct requests and local buffers instead of pc->buf and then, after that
> works reliably, finally get rid of ide_atapi_pc completely.
Why not take care of low hanging fruits first? There is still plenty...
- ide-cd uses private struct request for REQUEST SENSE (=> ide_drive_t's)
- it should be possible to port ide-cd to use ide_{issue,transfer}_pc()
_without_ dealing with struct ide_atapi_pc issue at all
- why not investigate the possibility of porting ide-cd to using sg-s for
PIO transfers first -- this should get rid of ide_cd_restore_request()
and most of other rq fields manipulations
...and this is from taking not so long look at the current driver.
Why attack the "hard" problem first (struct ide_atapi_pc one) while there
are easier ones to deal with? It may happen that once these easier ones
are fixed we will be able to view the "hard" one from a completely different
perspective (because code's complexity will decrease a lot in the meantime
it no longer will be a "hard" problem) and apply a better solution.
Besides I'm not fully convinced that struct ide_atapi_pc has to go first in
order to port ide-cd over ide-atapi -- we can just instead port ide-cd to
use struct ide_atapi_pc (however probably only after converting the driver
to use sg-s for PIO transfers -- otherwise it becomes another "hard" problem)
and then deal with struct ide_atapi_pc for all ATAPI code (be using struct
request fields directly or by merging struct ide_atapi_pc into ide_task_t
and always using the latter structure for ATA[PI] commands -- which is the
option that I personally came to prefer lately)...
Thanks,
Bart
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