Re: [PATCH v9 05/10] libata: separate ATAPI code

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:49:24PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:57:10AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:51:57PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > > The atapi_eh_tur and atapi_eh_request_sense can be reused by ZPODD
> > > code, so separate them out to a file named libata-atapi.c, and the
> > > Makefile is modified accordingly. No functional changes should result
> > > from this commit.
> > 
> > Why is this change necessary?  This doesn't seem to help anything to
> > me.
> 
> Function zpready introduced in patch 6 used these 2 functions to see if
> an ODD is in a zero power ready state.

And why zpready can't use the functions if they're in a different file?

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tejun
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