Re: [PATCH] dpt_i2o pci_driver model

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:04:05PM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] writes:
> > ... update the driver to use the pci_driver model ...
> 
> The patch applies to the scsi-misc-2.6 git tree. The moving of
> adpt_install_hba to the near bottom of the dpt_i2o.c file creates a
> dirty context diff in that region which is hard to inspect from within
> the patch. No coding style changes were made when moving content from
> the original initialization code to the module_init and module_exit
> functions to aid before and after comparisons for inspection; even
> despite the fact C++ style comments are used in these sections. We
> expect such style cleanup to occur either on any necessary follow-up
> rewrites after basic functional approval, or as a follow-up cleanup
> patch.

This looks wrong to me.  It's still walking a lot of driver-global
hba lists in the init routine.  All hba initialization should happen
in the ->probe callback, and there should be very little global
initialization.  There shouldn't really be any global list of hbas.

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